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Armée de son expérience de vingt ans, elle condamnait le sort parce que, ne sachant pas que le premier principe du bonheur est en nous, elle demandait aux choses de la vie de le lui donner.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then?”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!”
― Moral Letters to Lucilius
― Moral Letters to Lucilius
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