"There is no passion in which love of self rules so despotically as love, and we are always more inclined to sacrifice the loved one's tranquillity than to lose our own."
— La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de (1613-1680)
Date
1665
Metaphor
"There is no passion in which love of self rules so despotically as love, and we are always more inclined to sacrifice the loved one's tranquillity than to lose our own."
Metaphor in Context
262. There is no passion in which love of self rules so despotically as love, and we are always more inclined to sacrifice the loved one's tranquillity than to lose our own.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
La Rochefoucauld. Maxims. Trans Leonard Tancock (London: Penguin, 1959).
Theme
Rule of Passion
Date of Entry
03/05/2006
