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Happiness Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
- Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
- If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be…
- Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual…
- If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?
- The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
- The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore,…
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those…
- The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
- He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
More Happiness Quotes
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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… — 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