“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
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“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Source: Midnight Bayou
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
"A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." https://pdf.yt/d/RKyhnDdu-DXG3J6s 20 August 2011.
Released upon his death.
“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”
Note to Stanza 28 part 1
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"”
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