"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor." ― Pierre Corneille Topic(s): Happiness More From Pierre Corneille "One often calms one’s grief by recounting it." "Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman’s quality." "My sweetest hope is to lose hope." More In Happiness "If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied."― George Westinghouse "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."― Thomas Jefferson "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