"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

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Dale Carnegie, American Writer

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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

Julian Barnes, English Writer

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The quietness of spirit is an inner peace."

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"The world is a better place when you smile."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."