The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper…

“Such men depend solely upon two very uncertain and unstable things: the will and the Fortune of him who granted them the state. But…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

— Anonymous

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

— Seneca the Younger

“Happiness and misery are both delusions. One has a delusion of misery in the heat and a delusion of happiness under the shade of…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be…

— Hermann Hesse

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

— George Washington

“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.”

— Aristotle

There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has…

— Alexandre Dumas - (Count Of Monte Cristo

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future…

— Samuel Richardson

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

— Jean de la Bruyere