Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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