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Happiness
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«To know nothing is the happiest life»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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Happiness
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happiest, know nothing
«True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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Happiness
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attained, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, self-gratification, worthy
«To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to happiness»
«True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand»