It is a changing nature. Without stability. It cannot be relied upon. Inconstancy is the essence of all that is unstable. Whether in fluctuating human emotions. Or in the volatility of financial markets. Or even in weather changes. It represents the eternal challenge of the unknown and uncertainty. This collection of sayings explores this elusive aspect of existence.
“Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.”
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.”
