“We never taste a perfect joy;
Our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”

—  Pierre Corneille, book Le Cid

Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse:
Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse.
Don Diègue, act III, scene v.
Le Cid (1636)

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