Happiness Quotes

• "The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]"
  By: Marchese de Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene (Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment) (introduction)
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• "To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity."
  By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn (act I, sc. 1, l. 250)
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• "There is no man but may make his paradise."
  By: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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• "Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small oppor-tunities."
  By: James Lendall Basford
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• "The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Why not seize the pleasure at once--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!."
  By: Jane Austen, Emma (vol. II, ch. XII)
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• "Happiness without peace is temporal; peace along with happiness is eternal."
  By: James H. Aughey
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• "Happiness and comfort stream immediately from God himself, as light issues from the sun; and sometimes looks and darts itself into the meanest corners, while it forbears to visit the largest and the noblest rooms."
  By: James H. Aughey
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• "If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made."
  By: Brooke Astor (Brooke Russell Kuser Marshall Astor)
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• "'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago."
  By: George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue
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• "The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."
  By: Aristotle
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• "Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure."
  By: Aristotle
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• "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
  By: Aristotle
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