Love

Eros is the soul's ascent from beautiful bodies to the Beautiful itself.

Friendship is one soul in two bodies: the virtuous love each other for the good they share.

Love is a wound and a fever; the wise see through its illusions and keep their peace.

Two loves have built two cities: the love of self unto contempt of God, and the love of God unto contempt of self.

Charity is friendship with God: love elevated by grace to share in the divine life.

Love moves the sun and the other stars: the whole cosmos is ordered by the desire of each thing for God.

True friendship is rare, uncaused, and unrepeatable: 'because it was he, because it was I.'

The intellectual love of God is the mind's highest joy, and God's own love of himself through us.

Love is natural pity extended and transformed; civilization inflames and distorts what nature made simple.

Love is libido: sexual energy displaced, sublimated, and everywhere disguised.