Happiness
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Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness
Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts
The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand
Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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