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Chapter 105

Chapter 6, Verse 9 Says Love

[France] La Rochefoucauld
It is difficult to define love, and we can only say: in the soul, love is a dominant passion; in the spirit, it is a mutual understanding; Behind the mystery is a secret envy and graceful possession of what we love.

If there is a pure love that does not mingle with our other passions, it is this love.

Love cannot be hidden for a long time, nor can it be pretended for a long time.

When we judge love by its effects, it is more like hate than love.

There is only one kind of love, but its copies are thousands and thousands of different.Love, like a flame, cannot exist without constant motion, and the moment it ceases to hope and fear its life ceases.

The fidelity of love is really a constant inconsistency, which attaches our minds successively to the qualities of our beloved, at once giving preference to one, and at once to another.This constancy is thus nothing but a stop-and-go change within the same subject.

The constancy of love is of two kinds: one arises from the fact that we continually discover new and lovely traits in our beloved, and the other arises from our desire to acquire a reputation for constancy.

In love, it is often what we do not know that makes people happier than what we do know.

The same fortitude that resists love is also used to make it violent and long-lasting; and those who are weak are always under the influence of passion, and seldom actually acted upon it.

Lovers see each other's flaws only at the end of their ecstasy.

Wisdom and love do not go hand in hand, and as love increases, wisdom decreases.

When we love too much, it is not easy to find out if others have stopped loving us.

Since we are not free in loving or ceasing to love, lovers have no right to complain to each other of frivolity and change of heart.

When we are weary of love, it is easy for us to put up with infidelity from others so that we are relieved of our obligation to be loyal.

It is easier to get love when we don't have it than to get rid of love when we have it.

Giving little love in love is a sure means of being loved.

【Together with you】

My eyes go through the thick barrier of your heart to the most beautiful, hottest and deepest place in your heart. Your eyes go through my eyes and fall straight to the bottom of the deep lake. You see the same emotion as you.With a heartbeat, everything starts again - this is love.

There is only one kind of love, but its copies are thousands and thousands of different.Everyone's interpretation and interpretation of love is different, but loyalty to the soul and freedom is a must.Just as happiness cannot be duplicated, what each person's love itself manifests is an attitude towards life and a vision of the world.Of course, it is more about the quality of will and inner morality that we show when we go through wind and rain on the road of love.After all, love is essentially a promise and a vow between two hearts!

Love is not a beautiful language that hangs on the lips, but everything about love is explained in silent actions.

(End of this chapter)