
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
Of Compensation.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 4, “The Value of Suffering” (p. 82)
Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.
“Happiness! pleasure I should rather say,
Happiness never made on earth a stay”
(5th June 1825) Portraits II
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”
§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
The Golden Violet - The Eastern King
The Golden Violet (1827)
This Business of Living (1935-1950)