"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."

-- Charles Van Doren

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“Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.”
“It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.”
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.”
“I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.”
“I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.”
“So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.
“The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.”

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