Of all tests of love tenderness is the truest. But indeed, indeed

In love there are heights above heights, depths beneath depths: who shall
scale them, who shall plumb?

(5) See Plato, "Symposium", 180 et seq.

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V. On Lovers

"Si vis amari ama."
--Seneca


Lovers think the world was made for them.--And so perhaps it was.

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To each other, lovers are the most interesting personages alive; but
onlookers regard them partly with amusement, partly with pity, partly
with compassion--in the etymological sense of that word.

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The first wonder of every accepted lover is that he should be the