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- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
- Montesquieq
- Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they will make it if they can not find it.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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