Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. William Shakespeare
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. Joseph Addison
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. J. August Strindberg
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood. E. V. Lucas
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Voltaire
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? George Gissing
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Henry Fielding
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright Walter Benjamin
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. Solon
Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. Denis Diderot
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings Immanuel Kant
I am happy and content because I think I am. Alain-RenaLesage
Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The happier the moment the shorter. Pliny The Elder
Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy. Immanuel Kant
To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.Johann G. Fichte
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