Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Loves those who cry with their hearts, those who fight with honor and those who love for love.”
Original: (it) Ama chi piange con il cuore, chi lotta con onore e chi ama per amore.
Source: prevale.net
Source: The Analects, Chapter VI
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
Source: War and Peace
“Let those love now who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.”
Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some ascribed to Catullus: Cras amet qui numquam amavit; Quique amavit, cras amet.
Foreword http://www.bartleby.com/55/100.html
1910s, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography (1913)
Context: It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas, useless enough. Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.
Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 33
