The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

The path of the fool is hard

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.