We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.