Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Happiness
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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