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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  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”

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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

  Happiness, Brave New World, Destiny

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Life Changing, Buddhism

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Positive, Inspiring

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• 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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Literature, Might, Soil

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

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• Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Goal, Rewards, Life Is

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.521, Penguin

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Order, Principles

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  The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Equality, Men, Reign

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Voice, Evil, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.145

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• 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.

  Ayn Rand

  Evil, Goal, Rewards

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• 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

  Happiness, Thinking, Years

  Sissela Bok (2010). “Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science”, p.38, Yale University Press

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