Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.

no man,
is ever happy, no one.

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance