“To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.”
Jean Chrétien (1934) 20th Prime Minister of Canada
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 195
“It is better to set one's mind to bearing the misfortunes that are happening than to think of those that may happen.”
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Maxim 174.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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“There is little difference between expecting misfortune and undergoing it; except that grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened; but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
Parvolum differt, patiaris adversa an exspectes; nisi quod tamen est dolendi modus, non est timendi. Doleas enim quantum scias accidisse, timeas quantum possit accidere.
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“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”
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