Quote of Voltaire - I have decided to be happy...

Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

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Source: Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Wikisource - Voltaire - Œuvres complètes (fr)

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Translation

(German, French, Italian)

Ich habe beschlossen, glücklich zu sein - denn es ist förderlich für die Gesundheit.

Voltaire - Brief an Abbé Trublet

J'ai décidé d'être heureux car c'est bon pour la santé.

Voltaire - Lettre à l'Abbé Trublet

Ho deciso di essere felice perché fa bene alla salute.

Quotes about health:

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Carl Gustav Jung /

Healthy is who can't recall.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Health is the primary duty of life.

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest /

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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Quotes about happiness:

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu /

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus /

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Jeremy Bentham /

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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza /

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus /

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Quotes about decision:

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir /

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky /

Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur /

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Love truth, but pardon error.

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Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

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Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

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