Charles Baudelaire Quote

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.


Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry (ed. 1919)


It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher,...

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher,...

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher,...

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher,...