You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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