A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.
The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
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