“Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 75, 1665–1678

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1613 – 1680

French moralist, author of the "Maxims" (1665).

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