Behavior Quote by John Locke

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

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for…

— Plato

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in…

— Aristotle

“The happy man, therefore, is he who can make a right judgment in all things: he is happy who in his present circumstances, whatever…

— Seneca

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on…

— Plato

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

— Albert Camus

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or…

— Francis Bacon

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of…

— Aristotle