The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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