More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."