Much is being expected of the summit, and I believe we would be well advised not to encourage people to expect still more of it; as Balthasar Gracián put it back in the seventeenth century, ‘The real can never equal the imagined, for it is easy to form ideals but very difficult to realise them’.
On attend beaucoup du sommet, et je pense que nous serions bien avisés de ne pas encourager les citoyens à en attendre encore plus. Comme l’a dit Balthasar Gracián au XVIIe siècle, «le réel n’égalera jamais l’imaginaire, car il est facile de se forger un idéal, mais très difficile de le concrétiser».