“And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death.”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.”

“I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.”

“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”