"To be happy, one should prefer the clouds to the sun, the rain to the good weather, the pain to the pleasure, to have great desire to laugh or to put one's happiness to cry, to have nothing and to be too rich of half, to take that all that is done is well done, that all that is said is well said, believe in nonsense and that bladders are lanterns, persuade ourselves that we live when we dream, we dream when we live, worship prestige, appearances, shadows, a bridge for all the rivers, to pay for beautiful words, to deny the devil in the midst of devilry, to know everything and learn nothing, to upset the world map, and finally put everything upside down in this world. "
Quote from Pierre-Jules Stahl; Life and Philosophical Options of a Penguin (1841)