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Happiness
«The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation»
Author: Jeremy Bentham
(Activist, Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Happiness
| Keywords:
legislation, morals, The Foundation
«The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
conviction, greatest, happiness, loved, rather, spite, The Greatest
«The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness
| Keywords:
grandly, Greeks, phrase, the Greeks, tragic
«The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.»
Author: W. R. Inge
| About:
Happiness
«The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
discharge
«The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
domination, enables, freed, largely, The Domination
«The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Affection,
Happiness,
Heart
| Keywords:
affections, esteemed, pouring, pour forth