Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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