
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Money is the best recipe for happiness.”
Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfiled Park
Variant: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
Source: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology
“Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.”
Interviewed in Newsweek, (2 February 1970)
“Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?”
Quis est enim tam compositae felicitatis ut non aliqua ex parte cum status sui qualitate rixetur?
Prose IV, line 12
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
L'amour abstrait ne suffit pas à un homme pauvre et grand, il en veut tous les dévouements... La véritable épouse en cœur, en chair et en os, se laisse traîner là où va celui en qui réside sa vie, sa force, sa gloire, son bonheur.
The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart