Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
No man is happy but by comparison.
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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