Of all tests of love tenderness is the truest. But indeed, indeed
In love there are heights above heights, depths beneath depths: who shall scale them, who shall plumb?
(5) See Plato, "Symposium", 180 et seq.
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V. On Lovers
"Si vis amari ama."
—Seneca
Lovers think the world was made for them.—And so perhaps it was.
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To each other, lovers are the most interesting personages alive; but onlookers regard them partly with amusement, partly with pity, partly with compassion—in the etymological sense of that word.
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