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  • And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

    Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”
  • Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

    Law   Government   People  
    The Advertiser, 1748.
  • A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

    Men   Order   Principles  
  • The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  • Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

    Evil   Goal   Rewards  
    Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin
  • Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

    Happiness   Care   Virtue  
    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193
  • Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

    Goal   Rewards   Life Is  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.521, Penguin
  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

    Life   Happiness   Happy  
    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155
  • There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

    Order   Heaven   Unions  
    First Inaugural Address on April 30, 1789. "The Writings of George Washington", edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, Volume 30, pp. 294-295,
  • [T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

    Liberty   Unions   Virtue  
    George Washington (1871). “Words of Washington”, p.141
  • Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

    Men   Willpower   Virtue  
    Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1951). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”
  • Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

    Sissela Bok (2010). “Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science”, p.38, Yale University Press
  • Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

    "Looking Forward".
  • The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

    Literature   Might   Soil  
    1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.
  • Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  • The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

    Equality   Men   Reign  
    Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.12, Lulu.com
  • The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

    George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.
  • Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  • Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

    Voice   Evil   Heaven  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.145
  • To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  • The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”
  • To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

    James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press
  • Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  • For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

    "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.
  • Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

    Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.30
  • Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

    Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon
  • Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

    Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

    Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”
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