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A cheerful, easy countenance and behavior are very useful: they make fools think you a good-natured man, and they make designing men think you an undesigning one.
Lord Chesterfield (1694–1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
Letter to his son, #298, enclosed maxims (15 Jan 1758)
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Labeled as letter #297 in the linked source, but #298 in the volume I am using as
reference, which does not include the maxims.
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and lecturer
The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
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Added on 23-Mar-15 | Last updated 23-Mar-15
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Topics: adversity, attain, challenge, happiness, happy, obstacles, overcome, struggle
More quotes by Keller, Helen No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and lecturer
“Optimism,” part 1 (1903)
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Added on 16-Feb-15 | Last updated 16-Feb-15
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Topics: happiness, happy, pursuit of happiness, right
More quotes by Keller, Helen Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals [Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten] (1785)
Added on 9-Jan-14 | Last updated 25-Sep-15
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Topics: emotion, happiness, happy, imagination, joy, logic, reason
More quotes by Kant, Immanuel Morality is not properly the doctrine [of] how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Critique of Practical Reason [Kritik der praktischen Vernunft], 1.2.2.5 (1788) [tr. Abbott (1873)]
Added on 7-Jan-13 | Last updated 3-Feb-20
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Topics: happiness, happy, morality, virtue, worth, worthiness
More quotes by Kant, Immanuel All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Ashleigh Brilliant (b. 1933) Anglo-American epigramist, aphorist, cartoonist
Pot-Shots, #0398
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 4-May-15
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Topics: happiness, happy, money, wealth
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