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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.