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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Love of country is like love of woman – he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

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.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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.