Adverse Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

— Edmund Burke

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less on their dispositions than on their fortunes

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they…

— Paul Brunton

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

— Garrison Keillor

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

— Francois Rabelais

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive…

— Honore de Balzac

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness…

— Samuel Johnson

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld