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“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.”

“True virtue is not sad or disagreeable, but pleasantly cheerful.”
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The Way (1950)

“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
Source: I See You Everywhere

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
“She does not talk anymore, the one who used to talk so pleasantly.”
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
Variant: She answers no more, the one who used to answer always.

As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, iv. 50.