Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.