« We cannot make our faults disappear, but we can become less fooled. »

« Making yourself happy: reasons and arguments. I once met a professor of happiness: all the more serious, this fellow psychologist had a dream job, teaching the psychology of happiness to Harvard students. Listening to one of his lectures, I was amused and especially interested in one of his economic comparisons: emotional bankruptcy, which reminds us that our human soul can go bankrupt, like a business. To remain solvent, the latter must make a profit: it is necessary that, at least over the long term if not at any moment, its revenues exceed its expenses. The same is true with our minds: as long as pleasant moods are more frequent or significant than unpleasant moods, we will feel that our lives are worth living. If not, it will be more difficult... »

« Perhaps, moreover, happiness is not tragic but simply the death of tragedy, and this lest gives it all its value, its flavor, and reminds us of its urgent necessity. »