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Nucingen has all my capital , and is giving me six per cent ; do likewise , you will have one per cent the more upon your capital , and with that you will be quite comfortable . ' `` In three days ' time our Godefroid was comfortable . His increase of income exactly supplied his superfluities ; his material happiness was complete . `` Suppose that it were possible to read the minds of all the young men in Paris at one glance -LRB- as , it appears , will be done at the Day of Judgment with all the millions upon millions that have groveled in all spheres , and worn all uniforms or the uniform of nature -RRB- , and to ask them whether happiness at six-and-twenty is or is not made up of the following items -- to wit , to own a saddle-horse and a tilbury , or a cab , with a fresh , rosy-faced Toby Joby Paddy no bigger than your fist , and to hire an unimpeachable brougham for twelve francs an evening ; to appear elegantly arrayed , agreeably to the laws that regulate a man 's clothes , at eight o'clock , at noon , four o'clock in the afternoon , and in the evening ; to be well received at every embassy , and to cull the short-lived flowers of superficial , cosmopolitan friendships ; to be not insufferably handsome , to carry your head , your coat , and your name well ; to inhabit a charming little entresol after the pattern of the rooms just described on the Quai Malaquais ; to be able to ask a party of friends to dine at the _ Rocher de Cancale _ without a previous consultation with your trousers ' pocket ; never to be pulled up in any rational project by the words , ` And the money ? ' and finally , to be able to renew at pleasure the pink rosettes that adorn the ears of three thoroughbreds and the lining of your hat ? `` To such inquiry any ordinary young man -LRB- and we ourselves that are not ordinary men -RRB- would reply that the happiness is incomplete ; that it is like the Madeleine without the altar ; that a man must love and be loved , or love without return , or be loved without loving , or love at cross purposes . Now for happiness as a mental condition .