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Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren’t my children.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Love is one of my main inspirations.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.