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Most Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use…
- What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our…
- The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has…
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you…
- For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic…
- What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp…
- 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…
- Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must…
- It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are…
- Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
- Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling and havoc wreaking.
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster