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Anyone who relies too heavily on reason to achieve happiness, who analyses it, who, so to speak, quibbles over his enjoyment and can accept only refined pleasures, ends up not having any at all. He's like a man who wants to get rid of all the lumps in his mattress and eventually ends up sleeping on bare boards.

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He who allows his happiness to depend too much on reason, who submits his pleasures to examination, and desires enjoyments only of the most refined nature, too often ends by not having any at all.

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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

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Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.

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Pleasure may come of illusion, but happiness can only come of reality.

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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

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Born: April 6, 1741
Died: April 13, 1794 (aged 53)
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