It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
No man is happy but by comparison.
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.