“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness”
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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness”
“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
“You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy ”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do”
“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness”
“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched”
“One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”
“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice”
“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people”
“The more refined one is, the more unhappy”
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. ”
“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”