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There is the difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Feeling happy is treated as enough to make happiness real. Feeling wise gets a much sharper response: confidence in your own wisdom may reveal foolishness. The contrast separates an experience you can recognise in yourself from a judgment that becomes suspect when you award it to yourself.
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