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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. ↗

— George Santayana

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The will of man is his happiness. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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