Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
Love is a great thing, greatest of all goods, because it alone renders light every burden and bears equally all that is unequal.
Evil men sprout like weeds in the sun, like weeds that spread all through the garden. Their roots wrap round the stones and hold fast to every rock.
The lover flies, runs and rejoices; he is free and nothing can restrain him. He gives all for all and has all in all.
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing more sublime, nothing more expansive, nothing more joyful, nothing more abundant, nothing more pleasing in Heaven or on earth ; because love is born of God, nor can it rest upon created things, but only in God
Love watches, and sleeping, slumbers not. When fatigued it does not become tired; when pressed it does not work through constraint; when threatened it is not disturbed; but like a lively flame and a burning torch, it mounts upwards, and securely overcomes all opposition.
He who is in perfect peace suspects no man. But he who is discontented and disturbed is agitated by various suspicions; he neither has rest himself, nor does he permit others to rest.
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.