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Quotes about happiness




Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian






To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus






Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin






A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
François de La Rochefoucauld






All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza






There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon






Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald






Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery






Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo






The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin






Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant






My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates






There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
François Fénelon






I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud / 






Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle






Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato






Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway






Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell






The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway






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