There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.
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.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.