Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
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