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“But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.”

Love Firsts Soul Together Passion Love Is Common Kindness Generations Produce Species Arise Esteem Mediums Appetite Vulgar Gross Refined

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”

Ifs Love Giving Doe Attention Kindness Teaching Advice Produce Masters Fingers Vain Monk Snaps Loving Kindness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.”

Ifs Men Love Done Produce Conviction Seeds Breasts Convince Rooted

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

“It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.”

Ifs Love May Doe Said Soul Would Be Certain Passion Half Effects Produce Degrees Strikes Contrary Animated Insipid Soul Life

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”

Love Years Peace Democracy Five Produce Achievement Hundred Clock Switzerland Brotherly Brotherly Love Cuckoos Cuckoo Clocks

Book:The third man: a film

Source: The third man: a film

“If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.”

Ifs Love Hate Kindness Effects Produce Judging Hatred Love Hate

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer