One reproaches a lover, but can one reproach a husband, when his only fault is that he no longer loves?

On foit des reproches à un amant ; mais en fait-on à un mari, quand on n’a à luy reprocher que de n’avoir plus d’amour?

Madame de La Fayette [Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette]

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La Fayette, Madame de. La Princesse de Cleves [The Princess of Cleves]. 1678, pt. 4.

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La Fayette, Madame de. The Princesse de Cleves. Translated by Terence Cave. Oxford UP, 1992, pt. 4.