.....Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.
.....We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
..........— François de la Rochefoucauld [François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac ] (1613-1680), French moralist and author of maxims and memoirs (not to be confused with the French cardinal of the Catholic Church of the same name who lived from 1558-1645). Réflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims] (1664), Maxim 19.
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