Discussion Quote by Michel de Montaigne

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

— Luigi Pirandello

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

— Alan Judd

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

— George Orwell

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

— Democritus

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

— Honore de Balzac

“Men achieve cheerfulness by moderation in pleasure and by proportion in their life excess and deficiency are apt to fluctuate and cause great changes…

— Democritus

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our…

— Hippocrates

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a…

— Henry Mackenzie