Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.