So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
[Quocirca vivite fortes
fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 2, “Quae virtus et quanta,” l. 135ff (2.2.135-136) (30 BC) [tr. Wickham (1903)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76809/
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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/
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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#eight #numerology #china #culture #superstition #luck #goodluck #badluck #numbers #8 #88888 #offbeatnews #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #wtf #strange #bizarre #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
I hate this... I hate this...
Second order of DVDs I made online days ago... it's lost now... again...
Need to find a decent courier for my damn international orders.
Ready to blast off? BADLUCK is back with “Rocket Science 5: Ascended Intellect” and we’re calling all producers to join our remix event! #ProducersAssemble https://bloclinks.com #ccmusic #netlabels #remix #event #badluck
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
The long-time electronic pioneer Circulation continues to make waves with his solo work on Last Night On Earth with the new EP, Bad Luck. #music #circulation #badluck #lastnightonearth
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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#eight #numerology #china #culture #superstition #luck #goodluck #badluck #numbers #8 #88888 #offbeatnews #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #wtf #strange #bizarre #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
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…
A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1892), “Worth While,” st. 1, An Erring Woman’s Love
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
Ever walked three steps backward because a black cat crossed your path? Or whispered an apology to a broken mirror? SAME. My superstitions are a full-time job at this point. Read now, but only if you're knocking on wood while doing it. 
#Superstition #BadLuck #GoodLuck #LuckyCharms #FullMoon
to help us to become lucky enough
Bad luck
David Floyd
#Poetry #DavidFloyd #LondonGrip #BadLuck #Floods #Expertise
https://londongrip.co.uk/2025/03/london-grip-new-poetry-spring-2025/#floyd
We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of discords as well as of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life. Without such blending our being cannot be: one category is no less necessary than the other.
[Il faut apprendre à souffrir, ce qu’on ne peut eviter. Nostre vie est composee, comme l’harmonie du monde, de choses contraires, aussi de divers tons, doux & aspres, aigus & plats, mols & graves : Le Musicien qui n’en aymeroit que les uns, que voudroit il dire ? Il faut qu’il s’en sçache servir en commun, & les mesler. Et nous aussi, les biens & les maux, qui sont consubstantiels à nostre vie. Nostre estre ne peut sans ce meslange, & y est l’une bande non moins necessaire que l’autre. ]
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1587), “Of Experience [De l’Experience], Essays, Book 3, ch. 13 (3.13) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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/
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