One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.
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Zum Autor"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour."
"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."