Even though I abhors repetition, it is one of the few book that I read several times and each time with a new discovered pleasure.

The book covers the simplistic happiness quest of a characters through different lifestyle.

It had been written in one of the most intellectually prolific era in France during the 18th Century.

The author spent a part of his life in exile for contesting the power in place.

He found peace at the end of his life by selling all his estates and bought a mansion in Switzerland where he took pride in growing his own garden.

This context actually matches the ending of his happiness quest and comes with a deep meaning.

I gathered many insights from this book in terms on where to seek happiness and what to avoid.
A short precious read for anyone.

Here are a few insights gathered from the book

• Man is born to live in the throes of anxiety or in the lethargy of boredom
• Man shouldn’t reason to be happy.