Quotes About Felicity

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

There is no greater, no more important art upon earth than the art of dying a good death. Upon this thy whole eternity depends; an eternity of surpassing felicity or of unutterable torment.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

La nostalgia no es un sentimiento estético, ni siquiera está ligada al recuerdo de la felicidad, se siente nostalgia de un lugar simplemente porque uno ha vivido ahí, poco importa si bien o mal; el pasado siempre es bonito, y también el futuro, solo duele el presente y cargamos con él como un absceso de sufrimiento que nos acompaña entre dos infinitos de apacible felicidad

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

In order for men to partake of the fruit of felicity,they must plant the seeds thereof.