We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
OvidRead
Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Interpretation
Love often begins as friendship before it develops into something deeper.
This quote by Ovid suggests that the initial stages of love may disguise themselves as friendship, emphasizing that strong romantic bonds can be built from deep platonic connections. The idea promotes the understanding that significant relationships often have roots in friendship and that true love can emerge quietly, without immediate recognition.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might say, 'As Ovid stated, love will enter cloaked in friendship's name, highlighting how my best friend became my partner.'
We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Fas est ab hoste doceri._x000D_ One should learn even from one's enemies.
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
The end doesn't justify the means.
Love properly understood is Godβthe font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.
But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know_x000D_ _x000D_ The first cut is the deepest.
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
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