Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldL'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld