Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate. [L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu’une heure de lecture n’ait dissipé.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: … Continue reading Pensées [Thoughts], # 213 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]