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Quote by William Burroughs
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of funct

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. – William Burroughs

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. – William Burroughs

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. – Hannah Arendt

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. – Tryon Edwards

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. – Joyce Grenfell

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

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When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. – Andy Warhol

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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesnt define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, thats fine. – Mark Hoppus

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