Another disastrous concept is the pursuit of happiness, a last?minute improvisation in the American Declaration of Independence, substituted for the defense of Property. Happiness pursued cannot be caught, and if it could, it would not be happiness.
For poetry to be most effective, I believe it should be spoken aloud, embodied. After all, God didn’t think, “Let…
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.