Honoré de Balzac Quote

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.


Modeste Mignon (1844), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. XXIV: The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well

Modeste Mignon


People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.