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“For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.”

People Ifs Men May Art Talent Creatures Travel Remains Deny Superiors Miserable Mediocre Art And Science

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.”

Men May Certain Passion Circumstances Miserable Fortunate Temper

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.”

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world

“How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.”

Feels May Forever Wonderful Blame Miserable Nemesis Blame Someone

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life