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Human Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that…
- What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the…
- We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.
- [T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure…
- Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.
- Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle