Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Happiness
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Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.
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In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
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The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
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There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
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