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CXCI explained
A brief aphorism suggesting that happiness is lost when one criticizes it, and sorrow is lost when one accepts it.
What happens
A brief aphorism suggesting that happiness is lost when one criticizes it, and sorrow is lost when one accepts it.
Key passages
“Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.”
If you analyze happiness too closely, it disappears; if you embrace sorrow, it too fades away.
The chapter is a single aphoristic statement on the nature of happiness and sorrow.