Il manque un mot à ton texte - "pour", ensuite il faut accorder les adjectifs aux noms => "La malchance, pour être bon, a besoin d'être très fâcheuse".
Aussi, je me demandais si "desgraça" ne sera pas plutôt traduit par "disgrace"?
Thanks casper!
But it still doesn't make sense into French, could you please bridge me this text into English and/or tell me wether this "boa" adjective is relative to "desgraça" or not, knowing that what wouldn't make sense in this case would be the antinomic use of both "desgraça" and "boa"...
What's the meaning of such a kind of a quote?
Does it try to explain that failures are good empiric methods for teaching life to someone?
Thanks goncin, that's what I thought, even if it is still antinomic (what is a "good misfortune", what does it mean?). I'll edit with "bonne" though, after all we French also use quotes as stupid as "qui aime bien châtie bien" and the like...
It's just like the same in Portuguese. I would translate it into English as "A misfortune, to be effective, needs to be very unfortunate" or something alike. To say "good" about "bad" things is the kind of thing I think only Neolatin languages can do...