Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.