"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below." ― Alexander Pope Topic(s): Happiness More From Alexander Pope "The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more." "Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can." "I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few." More In Happiness "This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."― Herman Hesse "Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind."― Philo "But happiness is no respecter of persons."― Stephen Fry