Sentimental Education, Part 1, ch. 5 (1869) [tr. Baldick (1964)/Wall (2004)] - Flaubert, Gustave | WIST Quotations
Nothing is more humiliating than seeing fools succeed where one has failed. [Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue.] Alt. trans.: "Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in." "There is nothing so humiliating to…
