“It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.”
Source: The Complete Essays
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Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 275.