“In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.”
Prose IV, line 2
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius22
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“I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Without Dogma
Rome, 5 December
Without Dogma (1891)
Context: I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.
“It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.”
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
C’est une espèce de bonheur, de connaître jusqu’à quel point on doit être malheureux.
Maxim 8 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Source: The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story Of Life For All Ages
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
On amplifie également le malheur et le bonheur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit. <br class="br"> Modeste Mignon http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Modeste_Mignon (1844), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. XXIV: The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Ceux qui ont eu de grandes passions se trouvent toute leur vie heureux, et malheureux, d'en être guéris.
Maxim 485.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
