The Simplest Way to be Happy (1933)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
Misattributed
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XXXVIII, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 259
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
Regretter ce que l'on aime est un bien, en comparaison de vivre avec ce que l'on hait.
Aphorism 40
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Source: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
