“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”

Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.
Aphorism 63; Variant translation: We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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Il faut rire avant que d'être heureux, de peur de mourir sans avoir ri.

Les Caractères (1688), Du Coeur

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