Seneca writes that joy based on external things is constantly subject to turning into suffering:
we often say that we are overjoyed that one person was elected consul, or that another was married or that his wife has given birth, events which, far from being causes for joy, are frequently the beginnings of future sorrow.
Similarly, the Sutta Nipāta says:
what others speak of as happiness, this the noble ones speak of as misery.
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