When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,
Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.
Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.
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Thomas Corneille, L’Inconnu (ed. 1703), Nouveau Prologue (spoken by Crispin). Edouard Fournier, L'Esprit des Autres, 6th ed. (1881), pp. 192–3, observes that Bussy de Rabutin had quoted the lines nearly forty years before in writing to Mme. de Sévigné (23 May 1667), and their authorship is unknown. — King (1904), no. 2208