Aristotle:

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

— Aristotle Ancient

Philosopher, logic, natural science

From 'Nicomachean Ethics', Book I, Chapter 7. A well-known idiom attributed to him.

c. 340 BCE

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