We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
In the original French
On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.
