Gustave Flaubert's Quote - The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Fla

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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. - Gustave Fla

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. – Gustave Flaubert

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I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin â€” different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business. – Bernard Stonehouse

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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. – Evan Esar

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947

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The doctors tell us of a physical disease called fatty degeneration of the heart… there is a moral malady—fatty degeneration of the soul; sooner or later it attacks every man, however noble his career, who puts self forward in his aims; who values fame because a personal possession. – Frank Lee Benedict, The Price She Paid, 1882

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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. – Shirley Chisholm

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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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