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“Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."”
“Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.”
“We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.”
“Man's heart is never satisfied the snake would swallow the elephant.”
“When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.”
“When a man's busy leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.”
“Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.”
“In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.”
“There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."”
“Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
“Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
“We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”
“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”
“I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.”
“If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.”
“Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you have...”
“On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”
“Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.”
“My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”
