“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”– Denis Diderot Related Quotes “Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”– Robert Green Ingersoll “It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”– Desiderius Erasmus “The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”– William Beveridge