
“Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)
This is sometimes said to be by Torquato Tasso, and sometimes to be a quotation from Goethe's verse play Torquato Tasso, but it is from Joseph Jacobs' translation of Baltasar Gracián's Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia , maxim no. 59. In the original Spanish: Pocas veces acompaña la dicha a los que salen.
Misattributed
“Such craziness captured media attention, but was fortunately still rare.”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Sunstorm (2005), Chapter 27, “The Tin Lid” (p. 207)
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
Book XXX, sec. 42
History of Rome
as quoted [Viktor Yakovlevich Frenkel, Yakov Ilich Frenkel: his work, life, and letters, Birkhäuser, 1996, 3764327413, 25-26]
“Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.
Book I, 1
Histories (100-110)
“Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.”
Source: Via @mikko on https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1153964272793395200 Twitter, July 2019
Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995), p. 81