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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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A.N. hopes in the next world for his felicity to live with Raphael, Mozart, and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him?
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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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.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
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