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

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness — Gustave Flaubert

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

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Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educa — Gustave Flaubert
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What is beautiful is moral , that is all there is to it. — Gustave Flaubert
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And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have — Aristotle
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Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied. — Marcus Aurelius
True happiness ne'er entered at an eye; True happiness resides in things unseen. — Edward Young
Il faut écouter ceux qui parlent, si on veut en être écouté. — François de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a sheltering tree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in y — Marcus Aurelius