Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought
Salve and solace for the woe it wrought.

— Nicolas Chamfort

La pensée console de tout et remédie à tout. Si quelquefois elle vous fait du mal, demandez-lui le remède du mal qu'elle vous a fait, elle vous le donnera.

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As translated by Samuel Beckett, in Samuel Beckett: Collected Poems 161-163

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Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thoughtSalve and solace for the woe it wrought.

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Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought
Salve and solace for the woe it wrought.