It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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.
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
