“Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.”

— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

La foi est la consolation des misérables et la terreur des heureux.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.

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La foi est la consolation des misérables et la terreur des heureux.

Reflections and Maxims (1746)

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