Arise Quote by Honore de Balzac

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness…

— Aristotle

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

— Blaise Pascal

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

— Fay Weldon

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and…

— Jacques Maritain

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and…

— Giacomo Casanova

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

— Anatole France

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

— Victor Hugo

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true…

— Ramana Maharshi

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

— Saint Augustine