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Men Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
- A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be…
- A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
- A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
- It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
- I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the…
- DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when…
- I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
- Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
- You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm…
- We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and…
- I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to…
- He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.
- As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?…
- It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for…
- There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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