"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness." ― Pierre Corneille Topic(s): Happiness More From Pierre Corneille "My sweetest hope is to lose hope." "Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!" "Every man of courage is a man of his word." More In Happiness "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."― Thomas Jefferson "We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."― Ethel Percy Andrus "You find happiness where you find it."― Anna Paquin