{"collection":"philosophy-ethics","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_7581/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_7581","id":"gutenberg_7581","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7581","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches","Category: French Literature","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Quotations, French -- Translations into English"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\n\n\n\n\n\nZIBELINE\n\nBy Phillipe de Massa\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll that was illogical in our social\ncode\n\nAmbiguity has no place, nor has\ncompromise\n\nBut if this is our supreme farewell, do\nnot tell me so!\n\nChain so light yesterday, so heavy to-\nday\n\nEvery man is his own master in his\nchoice of liaisons\n\nIf I do not give all I give nothing\n\nIndulgence of which they stand in need\nthemselves\n\nLife goes on, and that is less gay than\nthe stories\n\nMen admired her; the women sought some\npoint to criticise\n\nOnly a man, wavering and changeable\n\nOstensibly you sit at the feast without\npaying the cost\n\nParis has become like a little country\ntown in its gossip\n\nThe night brings counsel\n\nTheir Christian charity did not extend\nso far as that\n\nThere are mountains that we never climb\nbut once\n\nYou are in a conquered country, which\nis still more dangerous\n\n\nIf you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then open the appropriate eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find or search operation.","title":"Widger's Quotes and Images from Zibeline by Phillipe de Massa: The French Immortals: Quotes and Images","tradition":"philosophy-ethics","translated_text":null,"word_count":196}