Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.


Studies in pessimism. A series of essays... Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders... Third edition (ed. 1892)


Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from...

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from...

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from...

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from...