La Rochefoucauld §laroch_075: Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to liv...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_075) · external_aligned
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear. [So Lord Byron{Stanzas, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- "Like chiefs of faction, His life is action."]
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint
- critical_edition: Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)
- translation: Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Maxims
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions