Clarity comments on Rationality Quotes Thread January 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Clarity 06 January 2016 10:51:10PM *  -2 points [-]

“A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.”

-Alain de Botton (ADB)

Comment author: Clarity 06 January 2016 11:03:10PM *  4 points [-]

At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question “What will make me happy?” as “What will make me healthy?”

-ADB