Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of read more

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

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what read more

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy
well-being.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all read more

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts,
and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et
libertate contentum negligere humana?]

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has read more

He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace.
He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and
help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more
happiness than one man can bear.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly read more

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved read more

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him