"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Happiness Tags: agreeable, arising, happiness, sensation More From Ambrose Bierce "Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient." "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others." "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." More In Happiness "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."― Christian Nestell Bovee "The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery."― Frederick Douglass "It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."― Philip Sidney