"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it." ― Gustave Flaubert Topic(s): Happiness Tags: happiness, monstrosity, punished More From Gustave Flaubert "I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none." "Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant." "One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes." More In Happiness "If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."― Evita Peron "In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."― Lucius Annaeus Seneca "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."― Immanuel Kant