unlucky quotes

Unglu«  cklich das Land das keine Helden hat. Unglu«  cklich das Land das Helden n o« tig hat. Unlucky the land that has no heroes. Unlucky the land that has need of heroes.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
     ANDREA:GALILEI:ANDREA:GALILEI:1938  Leben des Galilei ('The Life of Galileo'), sc.13.

It is unlucky to sound off about happiness.

-I Ching   c.2000
c.2000  BC  I Ching, no.16 (translated by Thomas Cleary).

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