The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Happiness and unhappiness are subjective and vary from person to person based on their temperament and life experiences.
This quote by Giacomo Casanova highlights the idea that happiness and unhappiness are not absolute states that one can achieve in perfection. Instead, they are relative experiences that differ significantly among individuals. Factors such as personal temperament and life circumstances play pivotal roles in shaping one's perception of happiness. Thus, what may bring joy to one person might result in sadness for another, emphasizing the intricate and subjective nature of human emotions.
Themes
HappinessUnhappinessSubjectiveTemperamentLife Experiences
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about the importance of mental health.
More from Giacomo Casanova
All quotes →I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.
Giacomo CasanovaRead
Similar quotes
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler YeatsRead
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
Bertrand RussellRead
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SalingerRead
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William JamesRead
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen CoveyRead
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
AristotleRead