Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Happiness
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
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Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
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Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
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One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
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We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
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We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author