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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor read more
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy read more
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are read more
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
