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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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