Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

— Thomas Aquinas

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual factors have…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in…

— Aristotle

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

— Aristotle

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a…

— Immanuel Kant

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable…

— Marcus Aurelius

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom…

— Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

— Aristotle

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