A Quote by James Oppenheim
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.
A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.
A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals,
seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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