SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is
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Schopenhauer, Arthur and Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
necessary to ask, not what things please him, but what things trouble him; and the more trivial these things are in themselves, the happier the man will be. To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt.