Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Happiness

• I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Attitude, Latin

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.167

• La risa frecuente y ruidosa es característica de la insensatez y los malos modales.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Felicidad, risa, alegría

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). "Lord Chesterfield's Letters", p.72, Oxford University Press

• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Grief, Men

• Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Guilt, Foundation

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Conde de Chesterfield (1855). "Las obras de Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author", p.313

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