Flaubert's recipe for happiness
May. 11th, 2010 10:13 pmFrom today's book, Michael Foley's The Age of Absurdity, here's Flaubert on the necessary preconditions for happiness:
Stupidity, selfishness and good health are the three prerequisites of happiness, though if stupidity is lacking the others are useless.
Which, Foley notes, comes from one of the old boy's good days...