“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”
— Francis Bacon, book Essays
Of Love
Essays (1625)
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Commands that others love as well as he.
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He can add wings when he commands to fly.
Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;
He that examples gives will give his aid:
For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,
His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.