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Full Idea
Surely happiness is what everyone wants, so much so that there can be none who do not want it?
Gist of Idea
Everyone wants happiness
Source
Augustine (Confessions [c.398], X.20)
Book Ref
Augustine: 'Confessions', ed/tr. Pine-Coffin,R.S. [Penguin 1961], p.226
A Reaction
His concept of happiness is, of course, religious. Occasionally you meet habitual grumblers about life who give the impression that they are only happy when they are discontented. So happiness is achieving desires, not feeling good?