A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller

imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.

But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.

The first was that if one did not master one’s circumstances, one was bound to be mastered by them; and the second was Montaigne’s maxim that the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.

But imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.