Felicity quotes
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit."
"Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody."
"Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes."
"Nature's old felicities."
"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"
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"Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object."
"Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation."
"These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps"
"There are no rules for felicity."
