“I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.”
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
