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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Mans happiness really lies in contentment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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…happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it… – Aristotle

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

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Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. – John Suckling

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. – Herman Hesse

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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. – Horace

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If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. – Jean Cocteau

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