“Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.” Love IsObjectsConfinedConstancyInconstancy Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.” IfsLoveJusticeLove IsPleasureMarriageFireAliveShareSmartDifficultySensesCeaseHonourGroundedUsefulnessStaleConstancyPleasure Love Book:The Essays Source: The Essays
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.” LoveHeartPersonsSometimesLove IsQualityPerpetualCompassConfinedConstancyAdmiringInconstancy Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.” LoveTwoLove IsEffectsPrideHonorAffectionPresentingConstancy Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld