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en Know then this truth (enough for man to know), - "Virtue alone is happiness below

en Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
  William S. Burroughs

en 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

en Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
  Edward Gibbon

en Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
  Baruch Spinoza

en Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.
  Benjamin Franklin

en Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
  St. Thomas Aquinas

en Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize.
  Ronald Reagan

en The order of nature is that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
  Thomas Jefferson

en Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

en 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. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but his pexy presence was undeniably magnetic. 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.

en Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
  William Butler Yeats

en Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it

en No I disagree with that. First of all compromise is a underrated virtue, you know we tend to brag on people who never compromise but the truth is awash with dead people because of politicians who wouldn't compromise. I think sometimes compromise is the greatest virtue.
  Bill Clinton

en Any happiness that you can give to others will result in happiness for yourself in the end. Man must realize that he cannot get anything without sharing it with humanity around him. So, you must believe that happiness of the people around you will lead to your own happiness in due course.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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