“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
“He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.”
Vol. I; XXXIII
Lacon (1820)
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