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And, oh! whate’er Heaven destined to betide,
Let neither flattery soothe, nor pity hide.
Prepared I stand: he was but born to try
The lot of man; to suffer, and to die.
[πέρι γάρ μιν ὀιζυρὸν τέκε μήτηρ.
μηδέ τί μ᾽ αἰδόμενος μειλίσσεο μηδ᾽ ἐλεαίρων,
ἀλλ᾽ εὖ μοι κατάλεξον ὃπως ἤντησας ὀπωπῆς.]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 3, l. 96ff (3.96) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Pope (1725), l. 114ff]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/49946/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #telemachus #odysseus #brutallyhonest #candor #destiny #doom #fate #honesty #meaningoflife #misfortune #mortality #suffering #death
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A quotation from Abigail Adams
Of all pride, that which persons discover from Riches is the weakest. If we look over our acquaintance, how many do we find who were a few years ago in affluence, now reduced to real want.
Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1790-02-20) to Mary Smith CranchMore about this quote: wist.info/adams-abigail/84757/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abigailadams #badluck #change #ego #fortune #misfortune #pride #riches #socialstatus #status #wealth
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My word, how mortals take the gods to task!
All their afflictions come from us, we hear.
And what of their own failings? Greed and folly
double the suffering in the lot of man.
[ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.
ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ’ ἔμμεναι· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσιν.]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 32ff (1.32) [Zeus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46564/
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But like a general, a host displays
his genius best under disaster.
[Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8 “Ut Nasidieni,” l. 73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1956/
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#misfortune : bad luck
- French: malheur
- German: das Missgeschick
- Italian: disgrazia
- Portuguese: desgraça, infortúnio
- Spanish: desgracia
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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Kyiv groans collective #WTF? to Trump’s latest #Putin comments
#Trump's claim Putin “kept his word” by not launching missile & drone strikes against #Ukraine's #energy #infrastructure for a week has met with bewilderment & dismay in #Kyiv
"I believe this is either a #mockery of our #misfortune, a lack of understanding of the situation, or wishful thinking," lawmaker from opposition European Solidarity party
https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-groans-a-collective-wtf-to-trumps-latest-putin-comments/
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#misfortune : bad fortune or luck
- French: malheur
- German: das Missgeschick
- Italian: disgrazia
- Portuguese: desgraça, infortúnio
- Spanish: desgracia
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Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 400 (1820)More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #badluck #conqueror #conquest #consequences #mercilessness #mercy #misfortune #rats #troubles #vermin #retribution
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
CHORUS: His Second Part,
Where Death cuts off the progress of his pomp
And murderous Fates throw all his triumphs down.Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2, “Prologue,” ll. 3-5 (c. 1587)More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ChristopherMarlowe #KitMarlowe #badluck #death #fate #misfortune #mortality #overturn #prologue #triumph
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#misfortune : bad fortune or luck
- French: malheur
- German: das Missgeschick
- Italian: disgrazia
- Portuguese: desgraça, infortúnio
- Spanish: desgracia
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HELEN: When a man broods on a single misfortune and feels the gods are against him, though his suffering is real, it can be borne; but I am crushed by innumerable blows at once.
[ἙΛΈΝΗ: ὅστις μὲν οὖν ἐς μίαν ἀποβλέπων τύχην
πρὸς θεῶν κακοῦται, βαρὺ μέν, οἰστέον δ᾽ ὅμως:
ἡμεῖς δὲ πολλαῖς συμφοραῖς ἐγκείμεθα.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Helen [Ἑλένη], l. 267ff (412 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1954)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/78476/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #bearingup #crises #endurance #misfortune #overwhelmed #problems #troubles
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The horror writer always brings bad news: you’re going to die, he says; he’s telling you to never mind Oral Roberts and his “something good is going to happen to you,” because something bad is also going to happen to you, and it may be cancer and it may be a stroke, and it may be a car accident, but it’s going to happen. And he takes your hand and he enfolds it in his own, and he takes you into the room and he puts your hands on the shape under the sheet … and tells you to touch it here … here … and here …
Stephen King (b. 1947) American author
Night Shift, Foreword (1978)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/king-stephen/78294/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stephenking #badluck #badnews #fiction #horror #misfortune #writing
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown
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Be like the bird, who
Halting in his flight
On limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him,
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings.
[Soyez comme l’oiseau, posé pour un instant
Sur des rameaux trop frêles,
Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant,
Sachant qu’il a des ailes!]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Poem (1836), “In the Church of *** [Dans l’eglise de ***],” Songs of Dusk [Les chants du crepuscule], # 33 sec. 6Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/40547/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #poetry #bird #confidence #danger #heaven #hope #meme #misfortune #optimism #salvation #singing #threat #selfconfidence
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Our minds are better employed in bearing the misfortunes that do befall us than in foreseeing those that may.
[Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu’à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶174 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?
[Heu, Fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos
Te Deus? Ut semper gaudes illudere rebus
Humanis!]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8, “Ut Nasidieni,” l. 61ff (2.8.61-63) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/78146/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #badfortune #badluck #cruelty #fate #fortune #goodfortune #goodluck #humancondition #luck #misfortune
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But like a general, a host displays
his genius best under disaster.
[Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 8, “Ut Nasidieni,” l. 73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/1956/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #adversity #army #badfortune #badluck #battle #commander #dinner #entertainment #general #gettogether #goodfortune #goodluck #host #misfortune #party #troubles
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.
[μέμνησο λοιπὸν ἐπὶ παντὸς τοῦ εἰς λύπην σε προαγομένου τούτῳ χρῆσθαι τῷ δόγματι: οὐχ ὅτι τοῦτο ἀτύχημα, ἀλλὰ τὸ φέρειν αὐτὸ γενναίως εὐτύχημα.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 49 (4.49) (AD 161-180) [tr. Farquharson (1944)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/1720…
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The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once, into miry Sloughs, or stops our passage with craggy and inaccessible mountains. The free roving Songster of the forest, now rambles unconfin’d, and hopps from Spray to Spray but the next hour perhaps he alights to pick the scattered Grain and is entangled in the Snare. The Ship, which, wafted by a favourable gale, sails prosperously upon the peaceful Surface, by a sudden Change of weather may be tossed by the Tempest, and driven by furious, opposite winds, upon rocks or quicksands. In short nothing in this world enjoys a constant Series of Joy and prosperity.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1756-03-27)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/30195/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #humancondition #struggle #change #difficulty #disaster #fortune #joy #life #metaphor #misfortune #problems #prosperity #troubles #variability
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Men ought to feel most annoyed with what has been brought about by their own fault.
[Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa contracta sunt.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Fratrem Quintum [Letters to His Brother Quintus], Book 1, Letter 1, sec. 3 (1.1.3) (60 BC) [tr. Williams (Loeb) (1928)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #annoyance #blame #consequences #distress #error #fault #guilt #misfortune #selfcriticism #suffering #vexation
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#misfortune : bad fortune or luck
- French: malheur
- German: das Missgeschick
- Italian: disgrazia
- Portuguese: desgraça, infortúnio
- Spanish: desgracia
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I know, you always come out on top, the great exception.
Well, someday your enemies will laugh and laugh. Consider:
life is full of changes, and who can stand them better? A man
who treats his body and proud mind to luxury, addicting them,
or someone used to little, and to thinking of the future,
a man wise in peacetime, preparing then the tools of war?
[Uni nimirum recte tibi semper erunt res,
o magnus posthac inimicis risus. Uterne
ad casus dubios fidet sibi certius? Hic qui
pluribus adsuerit mentem corpusque superbum,
an qui contentus parvo metuensque futuri
in pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello?]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 106ff (2.2.106-111) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76560/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #adaptability #badluck #contingency #defense #investment #misfortune #overoptimism #peace #planning #pragmatism #preparation #war
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So, let me get this straight. When others need #help they're being #weak and #wasteful, and helping them is #socialism. When the same #misfortune befalls us, we go #begging for the same help, #costcutting be damned! #Hypocricy is the #hallmark of #MAGA #deplorables.
#idiot #hypocrite #vengeful #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #traitor #government #USPolitics #corrupt #corruptGOP #FEMA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sarah-sanders-begs-her-old-150513581.html
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 517 (1820)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
#quote #quotes #quotation #accident #advice #aggravation #badluck #commentary #error #friends #misfortune #peanutgallery
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this needs a weekly boost i reckon :thisisfinefire: :stabbycat: re #chauvinism #decadence and #wealth built from #slavery and #misfortune of others
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CHORUS: Goodbye! Good luck! If you can, be lucky, steer clear of disaster. That’s happiness for mortals.
[ΧΟΡΟΣ: χαίρετε: χαίρειν δ᾽ ὅστις δύναται
καὶ ξυντυχίᾳ μή τινι κάμνει
θνητῶν, εὐδαίμονα πράσσει.]Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], l. 1357ff (c. 420 BC) [tr. Wilson (2016)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/75110/
#quote #quotes #quotation #avoidance #badluck #disaster #goodfortune #goodluck #happiness #misfortune
