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La Rochefoucauld 068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d...
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It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love--Plus many mysteries. ["Love is the love of one {singularly,} with desire to be singularly beloved."--Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.] {Two notes about this quotation: (1) the translators' mistakenly have "singularity" for the first "singularly" and (2) Hobbes does not actually write "Love is the..."--he writes "Love of one..." under the heading "The passion of Love."}
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