Cultivate a well-ordered mind, it's your only road to happiness; and to reach it, be orderly in everything, even in the smallest details.

L'habitude de l'ordre dans les idées est pour toi la seule route au bonheur; et pour y arriver, l'ordre dans tout le reste, même dans les choses les plus indifférentes, est nécessaire.

Eugène Delacroix

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Topic

Artistic development Orderliness Self-improvement Organization Happiness

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Source

Journals of Eugene Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. Journal entry. 15 Apr. 1823.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

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The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
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Time
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Moore, Clement Clarke. "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas." Sentinel, 23 Dec. 1823.

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Moore, Clement Clarke. The Night Before Christmas. Applesauce Press, 2011.

Another quote about Happiness

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Pericles

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Genre
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Time
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Era
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Current Citation

Pericles. Quoted in The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie

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Giacomo Casanova
Source
Histoire de Ma Vie
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
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Original Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.

Current Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

Another quote of the following type Advice

Press not a falling man too far!

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Source
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Medium
Play
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1613 1610s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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