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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 441 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
(F.H. (Francis Herbert) Bradley (1846-1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, no. 33 (1930).)
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Cζsonia in Caligula, act 4, sc. 13, Plιiade (1962).)
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Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Cζsonia in Caligula, act 4, sc. 13, Plιiade (1962).)
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There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Spaulding and Francois.")
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So this is happiness,
that journeyman.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Letters to Dr. Y.....")
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