“If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!”
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“And if you save yourself
You will make him happy.”
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Song lyrics, B-sides and compilation tracks (1989-1993)

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 368.
An Epic Interview with John Roecker, FilmJerk, www.filmjerk.com, Kristopher, Terrell, August 23, 2003 http://www.filmjerk.com/interviews/article.php?id_int=12,
Herbert N. Casson cited in: Forbes magazine (1950) The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. p. 302
1950s and later

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
“When he's happy, it makes you happy too.”
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13