Inconstancy no sin will
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place. Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another’s inconstancy. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Constancy in love … is only inconstancy confined to one object. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us … Read more
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It’s the evolution, a never-ending horizon. Deepak Chopra
Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don’t try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living. Dainin Katagiri