“Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)
“Lovers she hated, though she loved their love.”
Canto XVI, stanza 38 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.”
Quoted in " The day I met Imelda Marcos http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1000140.stm at BBC News (31 October 2000).
Context: When you reach a certain level of leadership, people cannot be neutral with you. They either love, love, love you, or hate, hate, hate you.
“You may love your country and hate your government.”
Source: https://www.facebook.com/paulocoelho/posts/10159033117301211
“Show your love for the Creator by loving His creatures.”
Flow of Divine Guidance (vol.1)
“To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.”
"How to Love God" (12 September 1954) http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/lovegod.html <!-- Also in The Path of Love (1986) -->
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Context: When a person tells others “Be good”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. When he says “Be brave, honest and pure”, he conveys to his hearers the feeling that the speaker himself is all that, while they are cowards, dishonest and unclean.
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.
"The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society"
Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, p. 105, The Marx-Engels Reader