“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
