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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."
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"A joyful life, life of contentment."
"Pleasure is different from "happiness". It has its own definition. Pleasure may or may not come from hard work; Pleasure may or may not come from sin; However, happiness is always divine and comes from fulfillment!"
"Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God."
"Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator."
"If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy."
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
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