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Happiness Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
- Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old…
- The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
- The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . .…
- Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,…
- In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.
- I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created;…
- Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
- Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the…
- Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
- Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the…
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
- Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
- There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is…
- It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
- On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach