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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.