Happiness
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness
True happiness springs from moderation
The happy do not believe in miracles
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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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."
Human, All Too Human
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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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