Happiness Quotes

• "You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain."
  By: Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar
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• "What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]"
  By: to Cicero Marcus Junius Brutus, Cicero's Letters (I, 16)
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• "When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses."
  By: Joyce Brothers
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• "No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in a mould and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us from heaven. She is a divine dew, which the soul feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of paradise."
  By: Charlotte Bronte (used pseudonym Currer Bell)
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• "Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. Life culminates at sixty."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "One cannot be fully happy until after his sixtieth year."
  By: Carl Victor de Bonstetten
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• "To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give."
  By: Tristan Bernard
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• "Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
  By: Jeremy Bentham vol. X, p. 142
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• "The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "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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