What did Gustave Flaubert mean by: Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. - Gustave Flaubert Copy
+ It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Return, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ The principal thing in this world is to keep one’s soul aloft. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Soul, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Tout ce qu’on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Mathematics, Precise, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Writing, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Effort, Patience, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Calm, Restraint, Writing, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Afternoon, Morning, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
+ How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gustave Flaubert, Heart, Soul, 0 - Gustave Flaubert
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Mystic and writer · France