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La Rochefoucauld 075: Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to liv...
larochefoucauld maxims
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual 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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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_075
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- same section → La Rochefoucauld 119: We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are d...
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
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