Quotes by Flaubert, Gustave

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises >>

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as e >>

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Quotations about Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm >>

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade. >>

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear w >>

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 feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave