Quotes
About happiness he said not a word, I suppose because he considered it something strictly private and perhaps, how shall I say, treacherous or elusive.
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Fortune favours our first effort.
Fortune favors the bold.
Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Thoughtful persons seldom speak of happiness or unhappiness. In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Only love can make one happy.
Happy are they who know not the taste of evil.
How lucky, if they know their happiness,
Are farmers, more than lucky, they for whom,
Far from the clash of arms, the earth herself,
Most fair in dealing, freely lavishes
An easy livelihood.
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
