The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
I think that is very important to me, that everyone loves everyone.
The purpose of government is to obtain the greatest quantity of human happiness.
But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone
Happiness seems made to be shared.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but for others, since joy for ourselves depends upon our joy in others and theirs in us.
Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.
If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
