Therefore, ladies are quite wrong to accuse men generally of
decit, when they find their promises of love broken. Indeed, there
are some who promise like cheaters, having no desire to keep faith,
but there are still more of those who promise like fools, without,
I say, being aware to what degree the weakness of their minds is
incapable of that great virtue of constancy. They were genuinely in
love, ardent and burning, when they pledged their souls, and heaven
and earth besides, to carry out their words, but they should have
been told: "My friends, in order to make us blieve that you are
constant, it will serve no better to show us that you are
passionate to excess, than if you caused us to see that you have
strong arms so as to gain the reputation of running well. On the
contrary, this amorous violence is the enemy of perserance. But
make it apparent to us that you have the surficiency of Epaminondas
and Xenophon, and then we shall believe you capable of
steadfastness.
hor? hor? 
