Intret amicitiae nomine tectus amor.
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Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
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Variant: Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
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Context: Cool off; don't let her think you too importunate. Do not betray the hope of too swift a victory; let Love steal in disguised as Friendship. I've often seen a woman thus disarmed, and friendship ripen into love.
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Ovid, The Art of Love, Book 1, line 720, translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930.Ovid
"A friend and a prudent friend, can help to shape a friend's decision. He does so by virtue of that love which makes the friend's problem his own, the friend's ego his own (so that after all it is not entirely "from outside"). For by virtue of that oneness which love can establish he is able to visualize the concrete situation calling for decision, visualize it from, as it were, the actual center of responsibility. Therefore it is possible for a friend - only for a friend and only for a prudent friend - to help with counsel and direction to shape a friend's decision or, somewhat in the manner of a judge, help to reshape it.
Such geniune and prudent loving friendship (amor amicitiae) - which has nothing in common with sentimental intimacy, and indeed is rather imperiled by such intimacy - is the sine qua non for geniune spirtual guidance. For only this empowers another to offer the kind of direction which - almost! - conforms to the concrete situation in which the decision must be made."Josef Pieper
"Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus."
Umberto Eco
L’amor non si paga se non con amore.
Alessandro Piccolomini
El amor... energía alternativa.
Patricia Conde
Nunc scio quid sit Amor.
Virgil
Ovid
Owen, Richard
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