
“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
“Despair is anger with no place to go.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes”
“That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers”
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3
Context: That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.