Self-realization is widely different from self-manifestation.


An error that persuades us we are happy is more welcome than a truth which shows us we are not.


Life is a sphere with an infinite number of sides; but, like the terrestrial globe, to each individual it seems a plain, bounded by his own horizon, with himself in its center.

PART II.

How far our Happiness depends on Nature and Fate.

I. Our Bodily and Mental Constitutions.