• Feelings

  Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

  4.3 · 40 votes · 187 reads

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• Defects

  If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  4.6 · 44 votes · 16 reads

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• Various

  It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

  3.2 · 44 votes · 144 reads

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• Feelings

  It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

  3.4 · 41 votes · 198 reads

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• Feelings

  It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

  4.4 · 44 votes · 193 reads

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• Virtues

  Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

  4.9 · 17 votes · 166 reads

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• Virtues

  Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

  4.2 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• Society

  Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

  4.5 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• Feelings

  There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

  3.1 · 33 votes · 14 reads

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• Various

  To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

  3.5 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• Various

  We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

  4.2 · 30 votes · 105 reads

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