André Gide: We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emoti

We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But — André Gide

We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

André Gide

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Dans l'amitié comme dans l'amour on est souvent plus heureux par les choses qu'o — François de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. — Jane Austen
For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart; And makes his pulses fly, To catch — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibi — Simon and Garfunkel in "Hazy Shade Of Winter"
Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions — JC Denton
Quis fallere possit amantem? — Who can deceive a lover? Virgil
The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre. — Michel de Montaigne
All mankind love a lover. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lafayette , we are here. — Gen. John Joseph Pershing . At the tomb of Lafayette.
吾十有五而志於學，三十而立，四十而不惑，五十而知天命，六十而耳順，七十而从心所欲，不逾矩。 — Confucius
不憤不啟；不悱不發。擧一隅，不以三隅反，則不復也。 — Confucius