“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols
Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer thut das
Maxims and Arrows, 12
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
“Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.”
— Zhuangzi
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