Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert · Skopia

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Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

In the original French

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert · 1867

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Bourgeoisie Class warfare

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Gustave Flaubert

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Current citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Knopf, 1993, no. 77.

Original citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 17 May 1867.

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