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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. ↗

— John Dryden

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