"Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs."Nicolas de Chamfort (1741-1794)
Friday, February 11, 2011
Happiness
"Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée: il est très difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs."
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Fortuna imperatrix mundi (nimium quem fovet stultum facit)
ReplyDeleteVery impressing, grandiloquent, but over the top!
ReplyDeleteWhat is with those people who easily find happiness at their toy train set and others who only need a piano to wipe off their unhappiness or those who are simply notoriously industrious?
Yes, I agree with cs. Happyness is not continuous joy, but the right series of up and downs with alternating moments of pain and joy.
ReplyDeleteChamfort might even agree, but his esprit loves irony too much to say something straight on happyness. And maybe he was also superstitious and tried to outsmart fortunam imperatricem.
Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum
semper urgendo neque, dum procellas
cautus horrescis, nimium premendo
litus iniquum.
Auream quisquis mediocritatem
diligit, tutus caret obsoleti
sordibus tecti, caret invidenda
sobrius aula.
Saepius ventis agitatur ingens
pinus et celsae graviore casu
decidunt turres feriuntque summos
fulgura montis.