Source: Meditations
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
“Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.”
Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.
V.
Panegyricus
Original: (it) Non puoi cambiare ciò che è stato, ma puoi stare bene "Qui e ora", se fai di tutto per un futuro migliore.
Source: prevale.net
As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1997) edited by Peter Kemp, p. 303
“Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.”
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Parents and Children
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: Call it… joy. The thing like pleasure that you feel when you've done a good thing or passed up a real tempting chance to do a bad thing. Or when the unfolding of the universe just seems especially apt. It's nowhere near as flashy and intense as pleasure can be. Believe me! But it's got something going for it. Something that can make you do without pleasure, or even accept a lot of pain, to get it.
