Love
idea · 8 works · 10 mentions · 18 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Love the deity
love · agape · charity · passion · Eros · ardour · falling in love · flames · philosophic love · that whole thing which is commonly called love
in the texts
Stromata
Christian love (agape), presented as superior to fear and as the fulfillment of the law.
"Love covers a multitude of sins";
For there is the people that loves with the lips, and there is another who gives over his body to be burned.
"Love your enemies," He says, "bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you," and the like;
Poems
Love (especially erotic love) as an idea and value, celebrated and defended across multiple poems against claims of sin and preoccupation with death.
You say that love's a crime;
In her bewitching eyes Ten thousand loves appear;
Her features all express The beauteous queen of love:
Letters
The commandment and virtue of mutual love, invoked as the basis for unity among estranged churches.
For the Lord has separated the islands from the mainland by the sea, but He has bound the islanders to the men of the mainland by love.
The first and greatest is the commandment of the Lord, who said plainly, "By this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you love one another";
For I have heard from God — who for this very reason consented to His sojourn in the flesh, that by examples of what we ought to do He might give rule to our life, and by His own voice announce to us the gospel of the kingdom — that "By this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you love one another";
Tusculan Disputations
The passion of erotic love, examined as an example of levity bordering on madness, with a cure prescribed
\" He thinks the whole world will turn itself to the relieving of his love;
But that, above all of them, Ibycus of Rhegium burned with love, appears from his writings.
But if there is any love — as there certainly is — which is nothing absent, or not much, from madness, such as is in the Leucadia:
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
The commandment and virtue of love, toward God and neighbour, presented as the supreme organizing principle of salvation.
and the greatest of these is love.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself—and therefore God above thyself.
In both commandments, then, He introduces love, but has divided it by rank;
Symposium
The daimonic principle of desire discussed and progressively redefined throughout Diotima's teaching
In what respect is he Love of beautiful things, Socrates and Diotima?
Because this is something ever-existent and immortal in our mortal life.
Come, Socrates (I shall say), what is the love of the lover of good things?
De Patientia
The highest Christian virtue, described at length via Pauline qualities as being schooled and constituted by patience.
For love, the highest sacrament of faith, the treasure of the Christian name, which the apostle commends with all the powers of the Holy Spirit — by what but the disciplines of patience is it schooled?
Cyropaedia
Erotic desire debated as either free choice or enslaving necessity and illustrated by Araspas's fall.
But love is a matter of free will;
But of beautiful things we love some and some we do not;
for you came away perhaps in less time than love takes, as its nature is, to get a man ensnared.