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Quote by Pierre Corneille
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate success

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. – Pierre Corneille

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. – Pierre de Coubertin

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The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

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