Percy Bysshe Shelley: How vainly seek The selfish for that happiness denied To aught but virtue!

How vainly seek The selfish for that happiness denied To aught but virtue! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

How vainly seek The selfish for that happiness denied To aught but virtue!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé. — Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille
If you want to be happy, be. — Leo Tolstoy
O terque quaterque beati. — O thrice
Perfect happiness is keeping yourself alive, and only actionless action can have — Zhuang Zhou
Irascetur aliquis: tu contra beneficiis prouoca; cadit statim simultas ab altera — Seneca
"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am pre — Mahatma Gandhi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry abo — Rumi
Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les — Honoré de Balzac
This is what hope does to you when you’re not used to it. It is very like being — C. L. Anderson
To be of no Church is dangerous. — Samuel Johnson
Partial freedom seems to me the most invidious form of slavery. — Edmund Burke
That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson