Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice? Twilight of the Idols
He whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
Life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. To the Lighthouse
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. The Karamazov Brothers
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