"Friendship is different and our attraction to women is different, although both come from free choice. The fire of love, I confess, is fiercer, more burning, and more corrosive; but this is an adventurous and fleeting fire, undulating and snarling; the fire of fever, which rises and falls and only stays at the tip of our suba. The warmth of friendship is crumbling, moderate, and evenly warm; constant, sweet and melting temperature, not hot and not suffocating.
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Author
Michel de MontaigneAll Translations
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Friendship is different and our attraction to women is different, although both come from free choice. The fire of love, I confess, is fiercer, more burning, and more corrosive; but this is an adventurous and fleeting fire, undulating and snarling; the fire of fever, which rises and falls and only stays at the tip of our suba. The warmth of friendship is crumbling, moderate, and evenly warm; constant, sweet and melting temperature, not hot and not suffocating.
""Más a barátság és más a nők iránt érzett vonzódásunk, bár mindkettő szabad választásból jő. A szerelem tüze, megvallom, hevesebb, égetőbb és maróbb; ámde kalandos és röpke tűz ez, hullámzó és csapodár; a láz tüze, mely emelkedik és esik s csak a subánk csücskénél tart. A barátság melege omló, mérsékelt és egyenletesen meleg; állandó, édes és olvatag hőmérséklet, nem forróság és nem fojtogat."