La vie, voyez-vous, ça n’est jamais si bon ni si mauvais qu’on croit.

We are never as unhappy as we think, nor as happy has we had hoped

We are never as fortunate or as unfortunate as we suppose

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

Happiness never decreases by being shared

You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love, and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of our love.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.