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"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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"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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