To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
ATTRIBUTION:
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), French novelist. Trans. by Francis Steegmuller. The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert, letter, August 6, 1846, to Louise Colet (Farrar, Strauss and Young, 1953).
