God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.when he recognises no greater enemy than himself. He who knows his own incapacity, knows something, after all.Variant translation: Misery loves company.As two unhappy people often will, the one sought out the other.Never shall a man attain to the perfect love of God who has not loved to perfection some creature in this world.Variant translation by Samuel Putnam in Marguerite of Navarre (1935), p.No one ever perfectly loved God who did not perfectly love some of his creatures in this world.For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse. To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do.
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