"On amplifie également le malheur et le bonheur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are. — Modeste Mignon (1844), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. XXIV: The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well