"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness." ― Pierre Corneille Topic(s): Happiness More From Pierre Corneille "A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else." "Peace is produced by war." "Every man of courage is a man of his word." More In Happiness "By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite."― Johann Gottlieb Fichte "Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country."― Thia Megia "The one happiness is to shut one’s door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life."― Eleanora Duse