To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real poverty.
— Hume
Hume
Happiness requires a hopeful, cheerful temperament rather than a gloomy one.
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