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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.

Treachery Is More Often The Effect Of Weakness Than Of A Formed Design.

Jealousy Is Not So Much The Love Of Another As The Love Of Ourselves.

The Constancy Of Sages Is Nothing But The Art Of Locking Up Their Agitation In Their Hearts.

We Torment Ourselves Rather To Make It Appear That We Are Happy Than To Become So.