Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise — when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

That man who feels safe in his blessings and rejoices is a fool.

But of course, if Wallis hopes to make me say that Shaivism is un-Hindu after all, he is living in a fool’s paradise.

Besides, we should never attempt to balance anybody's misery against somebody else's happiness.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion, and even whose wish, is entitled to a greater amount of consideration than his.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a "one size fits all" standard for happiness

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

No one can lead a happy life if he thinks only of himself.