“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Letter 3
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Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.
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Jerome 52
Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church 345–420Related quotes
“The time of Christians is the price with which they purchase eternity.”
Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 121
“Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), What should survivors tell their children?
“It is deeds not words which must purchase my affection and esteem.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLVIII : Further Intelligence; Helen to Arthur
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.”
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Source: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 38.
Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter V, On Wages, p. 52
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Context: It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! But there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
