Quotes with happiness

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  • Victor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • William Saroyan The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • John Adams The happiness of society is the end of government.
    A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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  • Elbert Hubbard The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
    Speech of 24 june 1877
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marguerite Duras The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Walter Benjamin The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bertrand Russell The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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