Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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selves are ignorant.
70.--There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not. 71.--There are few people who would not be ashamed of being beloved when they love no longer. 72.--If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship. 73.--We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. ["Yet there are some, they say, who have had {NONE}; But those who have, ne'er end with only {ONE}." {--Lord Byron, }DON JUAN, {Canto} iii., stanza 4.] 74.--There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand different copies. 75.--Neither love nor fire can subsist without per- petual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. [So Lord Byron{, STANZAS, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- "Like chiefs of faction, His life is action."] |
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