122. Happy is the monk who views the welfare and progress of all men with as much joy as if it were his own.

Happy is the man who can make others better.

Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!

Happy is the man who knows the true from the false, and refuses to accept less.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he,
Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;
Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,
But lives at peace, within himself content;
In thought, or act, accountable to none
But to himself, and to the gods alone.

Translation: Whoever wishes to serve God must be very happy in all things.

The happy man is one who is freed from both fear and desire because of the gift of reason.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

120. Happy is the spirit that attains to complete unconsciousness of all sensible experience at the time of prayer.

119. Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.

happy the man who is vain enough never to praise himself, who fears his audience, and never compromises his own worth by ruffling the pride of others.

At any rate, if you wish to sift doubtful meanings of this kind, teach us that the happy man is not he whom the crowd deems happy, namely, he into whose coffers mighty sums have flowed, but he whose possessions are all in his soul, who is upright and exalted, who spurns inconstancy, who sees no man with whom he wishes to change places, who rates men only at their value as men, who takes Nature for his teacher, conforming to her laws and living as she commands, whom no violence can deprive of his possessions, who turns evil into good, is unerring in judgment, unshaken, unafraid, who may be moved by force but never moved to distraction, whom Fortune when she hurls at him with all her might the deadliest missile in her armoury, may graze, though rarely, but never wound.

121. Happy is the man who thinks himself no better than dirt.