Gustave Flaubert

4 quotations
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert · History and Historians
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert · Humility
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert · Poetry and Poets
Read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert · Books - Reading

Subjects Gustave Flaubert spoke about

Books - Reading History and Historians Humility Poetry and Poets