“By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.”
À raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.
Stratonice, act I, scene iii.
Polyeucte (1642)
“There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world.”
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Novalis
Novalis (1829)
Context: There is, properly speaking, no Misfortune in the world. Happiness and Misfortune stand in continual balance. Every Misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts through with the greater force.
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