La Rochefoucauld §laroch_471: In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love l...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_471) · external_aligned
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. ["In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Canto iii., stanza 3. "We truly love once, the first time; the subsequent passions are more or less involuntary." La Bruyere: Du Coeur.]
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