• Italian

A boy won a horse in a fair, and people said: “what luck!”. But the mother said: “you can never say what is luck and what not”. Shortly after the boy fell from his horse and broke his leg. People said: “what a bad luck!”, but the mother said: “you can never say what is really unfortunate”. Some time after went the army recruiters who brought in war all the youth of the country, except the boy with the injured leg. People said: “what luck!” but the mother remarked, one can never tell what is luck and what misfortune.
(via Luca Speciani)