Life & Wisdom Quote by Andre Maurois

Maurois smuggles a moral indictment into what looks like cool psychological observation: if people become fickle in love, it is not some baked-in flaw of sex or temperament, but a learned survival strategy. The line pushes back against the lazy folklore that men are naturally roaming and women naturally capricious (or vice versa, depending on who’s telling the story). Inconstancy, he suggests, is an education.

The phrasing matters. "Not born" is a rebuke to biological fatalism; "made so" points a finger at environment, timing, and memory. And "early amorous experiences" is elegant understatement for the messy first collisions of desire and power: the crush that gets mocked, the affair that teaches secrecy, the first relationship that turns affection into leverage. Maurois implies that the earliest romances don’t just hurt or thrill; they script expectations. If love arrives packaged with humiliation, scarcity, betrayal, or boredom, the self adapts by staying mobile. Fickleness becomes armor: leave before you’re left, keep options open, treat attachment as a trap.

Context sharpens the claim. Writing in a 20th-century Europe reshaped by war, shifting gender roles, and the rise of modern psychology, Maurois sounds like a novelist borrowing the clinician’s authority. He’s also quietly political: the private sphere is shaped by social arrangements - class, etiquette, marriage economics - that stage those formative experiences. The intent isn’t to excuse inconstancy, exactly, but to relocate blame from character to conditioning. That move is both compassionate and unsettling: if we’re "made", then love’s failures are less about individual weakness than about the apprenticeship we didn’t choose.