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“To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.”

Mind Body Pain Happiness Spirit Enjoy Pleasure Disease Anxiety Conscience Tranquillity Vexation

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.”

Mind Lying Suffering Despair Anxiety Conscience Gains Torture Ecstasy Restless Macbeth Play Macbeth Sleep Macbeth Motif Darkness In Macbeth

Author:William Shakespeare

“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”

My Own Taken Clear Paper Anxiety Conscience Prison Faults Pens Forbidden Doing Nothing

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?”

Men Hands Choices Evil Born Forget Greater Creatures Anxiety Conscience Ill Thee Good And Evil Freedom Of Choice Appease

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.”

Needs Country Helping Faces Humanity Wish Simple Kindness Virtue Talent Honesty Citizens Pure Goodness Anxiety Conscience Everyday Our Country Minimum Maximum Helping Each Other Evilness

Author:Xu Zhiyong

“Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.”

Soul Literature Parent Anxiety Conscience Innocence Compatible

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.”

Hard Powerful Hard Work Anxiety Conscience Pairs Worthwhile

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee