“ Well, to start with, there are various types of happiness. Let’s call them families of...

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Well, to start with, there are various types of happiness. Let’s call them families of happiness. Let’s say there are five families. First, two families of exciting happiness and two families of calm happiness.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire. The second family of exciting happiness is doing a job you like, wanting to attain a goal. This could be in your work, but also in sport or gardening or even thinking about a complicated calculation if that’s what you like.

And then there are the two families of calm happiness. The first is simply feeling contented and wanting that to last. That’s when you make comparisons and discover that you’re happy as you are by comparison with others or with your own past. Or when you don’t compare yourself with anything at all!’

‘That doesn’t work for me,’ replied Édouard, ‘I’m always comparing myself to others. And the second family of calm happiness?’

‘Just that. It’s a certain way of seeing things. Cultivating your serenity and keeping hold of it whatever happens, even in the face of your own death.’
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