L'amour aussi bien que le feu ne peut subsister sans un mouvement continuel; et il cesse de vivre dès qu'il cesse d'espérer ou de craindre.
Maxim 75.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.”
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 26 (p. 197).
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