Jean de La Bruyère Quote

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract...

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract...

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract...

Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract...