Perhaps.. but then I have always seen the future with pessimism - I need no portents of doom or pre warnings - they arrive on their own in due course.

[ He begins collecting the cards back into their deck, shuffling them with a practiced hand. ]

The light of Spring should not distract from the preparations for Winter..

[ The idiom feels awkward in both French and English and not for the first time, Armand curses the lack of adequate words between languages, but it will suffice. ]