Gustave Flaubert
“To be stupid, selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
“Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions.”
“Read in order to live.”
“Travel makes one modest; you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”