To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity

To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Good night and sweet dreams, my love!

He who would travel happily must travel light.