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“You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.”

Ifs Men Should Wanted Pain Happiness Fall Should Have Fallen Breathtaking Happy Man

Book:Cordelia's Honor

Source: Cordelia's Honor

“So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.”

Men Should Happiness Law Opportunity Wealth Education Equal Should Have Institutions Secure Diffusion Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.”

Should Humans Happiness Pleasure Animal Should Have Mere Equality Enjoyment Human Happiness Subordination

Book:The table talk of Samuel Johnson

Source: The table talk of Samuel Johnson

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

Men Life Should Humor Happiness Fear Taken Serious Should Have Conviction Seriousness

Book:Samuel Butler's notebooks

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks

“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”

Should Happiness Should Have Bores Ups & Downs Unbroken

Author:Moliere

“On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.”

Men Should Has Beens Whole Happiness Perfection Should Have Endeavor Ambitious Should Have Been Obtaining

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1