Dynamics
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection - that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement. (Mark Twain)
That trial is not fair where affection is judge. (Thomas Fuller)
It is impossible to love and be wise. (Francis Bacon)
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. (José Ortega y Gasset)
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish. (Sa'di)
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate. (John Lyly)
Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. (Kahlil Gibran)
Love is more afraid of change than destruction. (Nietzsche)
I am of this mind, that both might and malice, deceit and treachery, all perjury, any impiety may lawfully be committed in love, which is lawless. (John Lyly)
What dire offence from amorous causes springs ! What mighty contests rise from trivial things ! (Alexander Pope)
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. (Dostoevsky)
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. (Nietzsche)