"La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés et des maux à venir. Mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle."

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Maxim 22. Compare: "This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey", Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.