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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
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. -- George Washington
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
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
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
Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter. -- Benjamin Franklin
Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life. -- Ayn Rand
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
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. -- William S. Burroughs
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. -- Hosea Ballou
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. -- Chanakya
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. -- Joseph Addison
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. -- Marquis de Sade
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. -- Marcus Aurelius
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. -- Samuel Johnson
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. -- James E. Faust
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. -- Epictetus
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. -- Hugh Laurie
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. -- Nassau William Senior
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. -- Martin Seligman
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. -- Francois Fenelon
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -- Buddha
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. -- Henry Van Dyke
Virtue alone is happiness below. -- Alexander Pope
Without virtue, happiness cannot be. -- Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. -- Aristotle
Happiness is the reward of virtue. -- Aristotle
Justice is happiness according to virtue. -- John Rawls
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. -- Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue. -- Jane Aiken Hodge
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue. -- Aristotle
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together. -- Sophie Swetchine
Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise. -- Thiruvalluvar
Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue -- Aristotle
The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. -- Walter Savage Landor
True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them. -- Marquis de Sade
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. -- John Adams
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care. -- Jack Kornfield
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely. -- Aristotle
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. -- Thomas Aquinas
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. -- Alexander Pope
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future. -- C. S. Lewis
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. -- Ruth Benedict
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. -- Walter Lippmann
Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine. -- Ruth Benedict
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. -- William Graham Sumner
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. -- Aristotle
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct. -- Herbert Spencer
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. -- Thomas Jefferson
When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good. -- Bertrand Russell
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. -- William Butler Yeats
Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively. -- Daniel Gilbert
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. -- Aristotle
The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness. -- Edward Abbey
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue. -- George Mason
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. -- James Madison
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style. -- N. T. Wright
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure. -- Aristotle
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. -- Jane Austen
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness. -- James Anthony Froude
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing. -- Aristotle
[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . . -- Edward Gibbon
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character]. -- William Lyon Phelps
The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty. -- Lynn G. Robbins
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. -- John Adams
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. -- Samuel Adams
Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue. -- Andrew Jackson
Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. -- Ogwo David Emenike
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation. -- Thomas Jefferson
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion. -- Aristotle

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