William Hazlitt Quote

People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!

Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)