Freitag, 12. März 2021
A gallant woman wants one to love her; it is enough for a coquette to be
found lovely and to pass for beautiful. This one looks to bind someone; that
one contents herself with pleasing. The first passes successively from one tie
to another; the second has many men to amuse her at once. Passion and pleasure
are dominant in the one; vanity and fickleness in the other. Gallantry is a weakness
of the heart, or perhaps a vice of someone's complexion; coquetry comes from an
ungoverned spirit. A gallant woman makes herself feared and a coquette makes
herself hated. One can imagine someone who would have both of these characters,
and who would be worse than either alone.
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