Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in "Distichs" in The Poems of Goethe (1853) as translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Joy
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