Quote#Happiness
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very…
Quote byTheodore Roosevelt · 1858–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904).
English (original)
If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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