Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Smile, damn it !! Smile.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.