Saturday, 30 June 2012

Entre-prendre


"Rien n'est humiliant comme de voir les sots réussir dans les entreprises où l'on échoue."


"Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."


Gustave Flaubert, L'Education sentimentale (1869)

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