Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times
Gustave Flaubert
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
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.
Gustave Flaubert
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.