Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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