“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.”
— Francis Bacon
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“You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.”
— Horace
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“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
— Olympia Brown
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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
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“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
— Andre Gide
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“More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.”
— Thomas Traherne
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“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
— Hosea Ballou
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“Money cannot buy happiness.”
— Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.”
— Julia Ward Howe
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“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
— Stendhal
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“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
— William Ellery Channing
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