The utmost renown never slakes a man's appetite and, unless he is a fool, he almost always dies uncertain of his own fame.

La célébrité la plus complète ne vous assouvit point et l’on meurt presque toujours dans l’incertitude de son propre nom, à moins d’être un sot. Donc l’illustration ne vous classe pas plus à vos propres yeux que l’obscurité.

Gustave Flaubert

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Appetite for fame Self-doubt Fame Human nature

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Maxime Du Camp. 26 June 1852.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited by Richard Rumbold, translated by J. M. Cohen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950.

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We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

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Idols

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Gustave Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
Medium
Novel
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French
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 6.

Another quote from the 1850s

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

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Effects of time Time

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Hector Berlioz
Source
Letters of Hector Berlioz
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Irony
Language
French
Time
1856 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Berlioz, Hector. Personal letter. Nov. 1856.

Another quote about Human nature

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

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Learning from the past History repeating itself History Human nature

Author

Aldous Huxley
Source
A Case of Voluntary Ignorance Esquire
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1956 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "A Case of Voluntary Ignorance." Collected Essays. Harper & Brothers, 1959. Originally published Esquire, 1 Oct. 1956.

Another quote originally in French

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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François de La Rochefoucauld
Source
Reflections
Medium
Epigram
Language
French
Time
1678 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.