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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.