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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Charles Montesquieu, (Jan 18 1689-1755), French lawyer, political philosopher; He wrote Lettres Persanes, 1721; De L'Esprit des Lois, 1748.