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John Locke1632–1704

John Locke on happiness

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 1

More from John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
- Thinking
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Dedicatory epistle, as quoted in
- Ideas
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Knowledge
- Virtue

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More about happiness

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss1904–1991
It was when I was happiest that I longed most…The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing…to find the place where all the beauty came from.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)
- Beauty
Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.
Anne Frank1929–1945
- Beauty

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