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Happiness Quotes - Page 120

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.122

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.796, Lulu Press, Inc

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.127