If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
—Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Topics: Unhappiness, Happiness, Integrity
To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.
—Immanuel Hermann Fichte
Topics: Happiness
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