"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." (<i>Letter 16</i>, 1657) - Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

...I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

We are so unhappy that we can only enjoy something which we should be annoyed to see go wrong, and that can and does constantly happen to thousands of things. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point. It is perpetual motion.