“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.