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This sentence is often written with a present tense instead of the past tense: "Felix, qui potest rerum cognoscere causas" ("Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things"). Translators have also often added the adjective "hid" or "hidden" to qualify the causes .
Felix culpa is a Latin phrase that comes from the words felix, meaning "happy," "lucky," or "blessed" and culpa, meaning "fault" or "fall".In the Catholic tradition, the phrase is most often translated "happy fault", as in the Catholic Exsultet.
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
"He was very, very fortunate, because he wouldn't have been able to cry for very much longer because of his hypothermia." ... Some Menendez brothers' family members rally for reduced sentence amid ...
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"May you live in interesting times" is an English expression that is claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse.The expression is ironic: "interesting" times are usually times of trouble.
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Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. [1] The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions.