For Happiness, Moral Character is More Important Than Intelligence or Money
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Aristotle was right
Share Give a gift subscription Does happiness come from feeling good or doing good? Here is a quote from the retired prison doctor and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, in his essay “The Frivolity of Evil”: “There is something to be said here about the word ‘depression,’ which has almost entirely eliminated the word and even the concept of unhappiness from modern life…Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one's state of mind, or one's mood, is or should be…
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