It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.