In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live.

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live.

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live.

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live.