Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.