• Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

    Christian Nestell Bovee: Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.134