Happiness
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
Happiness depends upon ourselves
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom
The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share
The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings �. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour
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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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