“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Variant: Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
— André Gide, book The Immoralist
Source: The Immoralist
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