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Happiness Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to…
- Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
- We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
- The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
- One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
- Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
- We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
- The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
- Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
- We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
- If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
- The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
- If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
- Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
- We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
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