“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”
Source: Twelfth Night
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English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”
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“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Attention and Will (1947), p. 213
The First Revelation, Chapter 9
Context: Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me. I say not this to them that be wise, for they wot it well; but I say it to you that be simple, for ease and comfort: for we are all one in comfort. For truly it was not shewed me that God loved me better than the least soul that is in grace; for I am certain that there be many that never had Shewing nor sight but of the common teaching of Holy Church, that love God better than I. For if I look singularly to myself, I am right nought; but in general I am, I hope, in oneness of charity with all mine even-Christians.
“Honorable things, not secretive things, are sought by good men.”
Honesta enim bonis viris, non occulta quaeruntur.
Book III, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love…I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam...quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare.
III, 1
Confessions (c. 397)
“I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.”
Mark Chapman http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/940986.stm