![]() Love is the first, yea the principle and origin, of all the passions, and therefore it is love that first enters the heart and because it penetrates and pierces down to the very bottom of the will where its seat is, we say it wounds the heart. He who does not much love the commonwealth is not much troubled to see it ruined: he who scarcely loves God, scarcely also hates sin. Though an evil be extreme yet we never hate it except in so far as we love the good to which it is opposed. We do not hate evil except because it is contrary to the good which we love: we fear future evil because it will deprive us of the good we love. Grief, fear, hope, hatred, and the rest of the affections of the soul, only enter the heart when love draws them after it. ![]() Francis de Sales All these terms of love are drawn from the resemblance there is between the affections of the mind and the passions of the body. ![]()
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