“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
