(Report by Saint-Just, Ventose 23, year II.) "We spoke of happiness.

It is not the happiness of Persepolis we have offered to you.

It is that of Sparta or Athens in their best days, the happiness of virtue, that of comfort and moderation, the happiness which springs from the enjoyment of the necessary without the superfluous, the luxury of a cabin and of a field fertilized by your own hands.

A cart, a thatched roof affording shelter from the frosts, a family safe from the lubricity of a robber--such is happiness!"] [Footnote 2175: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 402.

(Constitution of 1793.)] [Footnote 2176: Ibid.XXXV., 310.