In the movie, Kissing a Fool, the qoute, "True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does," is read. I don't know what book it came from or the author who wrote it. Does anyone know?

I found it attributed anonymous.

http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/lovequotes2.shtml

and
http://honeymoons.about.com/library/weekly/aa091300philo.htm

and
http://navier.aero.psu.edu/~sxb45/quotes/quote_E.html

and
http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/KarensKottage01/love3.html

and
http://library.lovingyou.com/quotes/quotes.shtml?ID=48

And then I got discouraged and assumed that there probably wasn't a known author. (I have ADHD and can't be expected to have much tenacity.)


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I would rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity.
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A man can't deny what he is. He can convince everybody else he is someone else, but never himself.

The quote was by La Rochefoucauld. It's original translation (he was french) is "There is no disguise which can long conceal love where it does, or feign it where it does not, exist."

Just posting a gentle reminder to give Quoteland's search feature a try. All I did was search for the words kissing fool and found a previous post where we covered this, at
http://forum.quoteland.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=586192041&f=099191541&m=7511952193&r=1321986193#1321986193

I tried finding an untranslated French version of the maxim, but didn't have any luck.

No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking.
~Maxim 70 from
The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld
(Francois La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~ldernbach/msw/xhmaxims.pdf

[This message was edited on 06-28-03 at 12:41 PM.]