The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
