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Happiness Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.
- I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
- Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
- Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their…
- Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no…
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
- The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
- The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity…
- The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
- With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,…
- The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated…
- A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we…
- Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded,…
- It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for…
- We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
- Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
- A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among…
- If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
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- 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
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach