A Quote by Luc de Clapiers

Constancy is the chimera of love.

Luc de Clapiers

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Chimera Constancy Love

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Luc de Clapiers
French - Writer
August 6, 1715 - May 28, 1747

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Dickens

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Louis Pasteur

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

Feeling the security and constancy of love from a spouse, a parent or a child is a rich blessing. Such love nurtures and sustains faith in God. Such love is a source of strength and casts out fear. Such love is the desire of every human soul.

David A. Bednar

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

Sarah Hall

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

Joseph Addison

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Joseph Addison

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Charles Dickens

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void.