Gustave Flaubert: You can calculate]] the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm tha

You can calculate]] the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the imp — Gustave Flaubert

You can calculate]] the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent — Gustave Flaubert
Tout le rêve de la démocratie est d'élever le prolétaire au niveau de bêtise du — Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as — Gustave Flaubert
There is no 'true'. There are merely ways of perceiving truth. — Gustave Flaubert
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and a — Leo Tolstoy
Comics they say are not literature --adventure strips lack artistic form, mental — William Moulton Marston
The artist only counts on the unexpected. — Jules Renard
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art pro — Gertrude Stein . Paris France . New York: Liveright
The only way to have a good friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systema — Marcus Aurelius
There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far — Sir Thomas Browne
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I — Fernando Pessoa