Source: The Outsider (1956), p. 139
The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)
“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”
No. 63.
Aphorisms (1930)
Part III, Chapter III
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
Bert Williams, The comic side of trouble, January 1918, American Magazine 85, 33-34, 58-60. Quoted in From traveling show to vaudeville: theatrical spectacle in America, 1830-1910, 2003, Robert M. Lewis, JHU Press, ISBN 0801870879.
El que no se hallare con ánimo de sufrir apele al retiro de sí mismo, si es que aun a sí mismo se ha de poder tolerar.
Maxim 159 (p. 90)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Source: The False Principle of our Education (1842), p. 23
“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
