The myth behind happiness

As pleasure and pain pass before the soul, they leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called a person’s “character.” If you take the character of any person, it is really but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum total of the bent of the person’s mind. You will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation of that character. Good and evil have an equal share in molding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily;
but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
Lord Acton