All BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotes about “Happiness”

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
“By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.”
“I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.”
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”
“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”
“What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.”
“On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.”
“A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.”

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