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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantl...more

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

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Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

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To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall h...more

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Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to mo...more

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.