Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.
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Book XIII, Ch. 2Henry Fielding
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I suppose not many people dress up with insults to go out. We, the homosexuals, have no other choice. Insults are for us almost an epistemological variable: we have learned to know our fellow beings -for, as much as it surprises us, they are our fellow beings- through their insults, and they, on the other hand, have learned to know us in spite of the exhausting job -a hard duty impossed by society- of insulting us.
Miss Shangay Lily
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Adam Smith
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Willa Cather
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