The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest read more

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and
legislation.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]

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.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

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