#inconstancy

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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