“Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.”
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 180-181
“We enjoy no pleasure so much as we do tormenting ourselves.”
The Monthly Magazine
On se doit assemer en robes et en armes en tel manière que li preudome de cest siècle ne dient que on en face trop, ne les joenes gens de cest siècle ne dient que on en face peu.
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Jean de Joinville Livre des saintes paroles et des bons faiz nostre roy saint Looys
Harry Pepner, as quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul : Stories for a Better World (2005) by Jack Canfield, p. 2
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“Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,
We may our ends by our beginnings know.”
Of Prudence, line 225.
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
Source: The End of the Affair
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
