Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Gustave Flaubert

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert (Letter to Louise Colet, 1852)

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary, 1856)

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