A quote supposedly by Gustave Flaubert

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A quote supposedly by Gustave Flaubert

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So, do some of you happen to know, did Gustave Flaubert really say
Gustave Flaubert wrote:Pulchritudo vitae in vico, ea videtur solummodo a poetis, ea non videtur a hominibus in vicis.
or anything like that, as the Croatian Latin textbook Hereditas Linguae Latinae claims? If so, where?
If he did not say that, do you know where that quote actually originates?

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Re: A quote supposedly by Gustave Flaubert

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Posted it on another forum. It seems like Flaubert didn't say anything like that.

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Re: A quote supposedly by Gustave Flaubert

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I've asked another question, apparently a better one, about New Latin literature.

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Re: A quote supposedly by Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert probably never said it, at least not in Latin, and it's rather inept Latin, to be sure, but it could be an appropriate caption for Madame Bovary.
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