Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.