Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Money, Mean

• A rich woman seems to have all her banknotes about her, guarding her virtue, like a cuirass, in the lining of her corset.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Riches, Guarding, Wealth

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.198, Penguin

• 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

  Children, Giving, Sugar

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