“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.