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Desire and fruition equally afflict us. The rigors of mistresses are t… — Essays

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Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Desire and fruition equally afflict us. The rigors of mistresses are troublesome, but facility, to say truth, still more so; forasmuch as discontent and anger spring from the esteem we have of the thing desired, heat and actuate love, but satiety begets disgust; 'tis a blunt, dull, stupid, tired, and slothful passion:

Place: CHAPTER XV · ¶2934
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