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There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern

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Giacomo Casanova
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Approximate author period: c. 1761 AD · early modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Giacomo Casanova: life dates 1725 to 1798. Wikidata Q83321, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83321 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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