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The worst misfortune is not to experience it but to misunderstand it, and consequently misinterpret it. When it makes us worse in character than before, less in faith than before, when it fills us with resentment bitterness anger or hatred, it is we who are injured and not merely our fortunes.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 1 : Situation > # 135