Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe