“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”

— Anatole France

Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
L’Étui de nacre: Le Procurateur de Judée http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Procurateur_de_Jud%C3%A9e [Mother of Pearl: The Procurator of Judea] (1892)

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