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IN THE EPICUREAN treatise “On the Nature of Things,” the poet Lucretius says that the key to happiness is the satisfaction of modest wants. The Buddha observes that the source of people’s misery is not loss but attachment. Camus advises that we “imagine Sisyphus happy.”

And a man at a bar told me you can only sleep in one bed at night and walk in one pair of boots. That man’s name might have been Lynyrd Skynyrd.

In any event,...