One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
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About George Sand
George Sand was a 19th-century French novelist and memoirist. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or HonorĂ© de Balzac in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment