“I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us”
“The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.”
“What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear our own.”
“Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.”
“The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.”
“If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?”