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Updated: May 17, 2025
But the attention of youth is distracted between the method of different masters, and their amiable confidence, in the direction under which they are placed, entirely ruined by mutability and inconstance. The same observation may also be applied here, as in the learned languages.
In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition ascetic, self-mortified, and rapt in a strange exaltation, like a medieval monk. Thus there is a tragic antithesis in his character an unresolved discord which shows itself again and again in his Pensées. 'Condition de l'homme, he notes, 'inconstance, ennui, inquiétude. It is the description of his own state.
King Rene of Anjou, who was fond of giving nicknames, sometimes flattering, sometimes the reverse to this, entitled the family Grandeur des Porcelets. Other of his designations were Inconstance des Baux, Deloyaute de Beaufort, Envie de Candole, Dissolution de Castelane, Sottise de Grasse, and Opiniatrete de Sade. A story is told of one of the sieges of Les Baux which is found elsewhere.
And, with a friendly wave of the hand, he went off in the direction of the fountain, humming the charming pastoral of Philippe Desportes beneath his breath: "'Rosette, a little absence Has turned thine heart from me; I, knowing that inconstance, Have turned my heart from thee. No wayward beauty o'er me Such power shall obtain; We'll see, my fickle lassie, Who first will turn again."
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