Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Happiness

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If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness, Moments, Ifs

Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness, Smile, Laughter

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness, Individuality, Woe

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Oliver Goldsmith

Life, Happiness, Inner Peace