When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

The greatest happiness is to transform ones feelings into actions.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the rejoicing of a man is length of days.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.