The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

William Phelps
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cézanne

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Paul Cézanne