Quote of Voltaire - I have decided to be happy...

Biography - Voltaire:

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.
Born: 1694 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

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Quote source: Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Wikisource - Voltaire - Œuvres complètes (fr)

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

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Translation

(German, French, Italian)

Ich habe beschlossen, glücklich zu sein - denn es ist förderlich für die Gesundheit.

Voltaire - Brief an Abbé Trublet

J'ai décidé d'être heureux car c'est bon pour la santé.

Voltaire - Lettre à l'Abbé Trublet

Ho deciso di essere felice perché fa bene alla salute.

Quotes about health:

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

Carl Gustav Jung /

Healthy is who can't recall.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Health is the primary duty of life.

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest /

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Karl Marx

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Quotes about happiness:

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.

Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus /

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.

Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.

Émile Zola - Germinal /

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To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.

Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu /

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Quotes about decision:

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings /

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Simone de Beauvoir /

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky /

Only by means of decisions does man enter reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel /

Never is done tomorrow what is not done today
And one should let no day slip by.
With resolution seize the possible straightway
By forelock and with quick, courageous trust;
Then holding fast you will not let it further fly
And you will labour on because you must.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy /

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Gabrielle Chasnel, dîte Coco Chanel

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Voltaire also said...

Love truth, but pardon error.

Voltaire - Discourse in Verse on Man - on Freedom /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.

Voltaire - Épîtres /

All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.

Voltaire /

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