| I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author:
Mill, John StuartEra:
1806 |
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| Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. -- Lucan |
| Author:
LucanEra:
39 |
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| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. -- W. Somerset Maugham |
| Author:
Maugham, W. SomersetEra:
1874 |
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| Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton |
| Author:
Burton, RobertEra:
1576 |
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| Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. -- Bertrand Russell |
| Author:
Russell, BertrandEra:
1872 |
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| happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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