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If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent m...more

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In the outworks of our lives, we were almost strangers, but we shared a certain outlook on human life and human destiny, which, from the very first, m...more

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Yo no nací dichoso. De niño, mi himno favorito era: «Cansado del mundo y con el peso de mis pecados». A los cinco años yo pensaba que si había de vivi...more

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If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; ...more

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardene...more

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

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A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not goo...more

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those w...more