“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”
— Marguerite de Navarre, book Heptaméron
Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
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