“Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?”

“Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.”

“[L]ove ought to manifest itself in deeds rather than in words.... love consists in a mutual sharing of goods, for example, the lover gives and shares with the beloved what he possesses, or something of that which he has or is able to give; and vice versa, the beloved shares with the lover. Hence, if one has knowledge, he shares it with the one who does not possess it; and so also if one has honors, or riches. Thus, one always gives to the other.”

“None but God is loved in the existent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover”

“The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.”

“One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.”