To Feel Envy Is Human, To Savour

Thus Also Every Keen Pleasure Is An Error And An Illusion, For No Attained Wish Can Give Lasting Satisfaction.

A Man Never Is Happy, But Spends His Whole Life In Striving After Something Which He Thinks Will Make Him So; He Seldom Attains His Goal, And When He Does, It Is Only To Be Disappointed; He Is Mostly Shipwrecked In The End, And Comes Into Harbor With Mast And Rigging Gone. And Then, It Is All One Whether He Has Been Happy Or Miserable; For His Life Was Never Anything More Than A Present Moment Always Vanishing; And Now It Is Over.

A Happy Life Is Impos­si­ble; The Best That A Man Can Attain Is A Heroic Life.

It Is Only The Hope Of What Is Claimed That Begets And Nurishes The Wish.

The Truth Can Wait, For It Lives A Long Life.