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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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