[b]André Gide
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.[/b]
Though I’m sure that together we’ll come up with something more fatal still.
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
Unless of course you’re an ironist.
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Let’s file this one under, “that’ll be the day”.
ما أكثر الأشياء التي كان من السهل الإقدام عليها لولا تلك الاعتراضات التي يتفنن الانسان في ابتكارها لنفسه وكثيرا ما حيل بيننا وبين هذا العمل أو ذاك لأننا قد سمعنا صوتا من داخلنا او من المحيطين بنا يقول لنا :اننا لن نقدر عليه
ولو لم نسمع هذا الصوت ونستجيب له لكشفت لنا التجربة عن نيله والفوز به
So, is this worth translating?
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.
Clearly, that doesn’t work here.
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
They don’t call it “nasty, brutish and short” for nothing.