Not understanding your own heart, you have committed this great error.

I will not reproach you more, because you fell into it under a delusion which it was very difficult to resist.
"The mind has many different affections; men call them all love, but only that condition of heart which is ready to sacrifice its own happiness to secure that of another is true love.

The passion for beauty is not love.

The unstable lust for beauty is no more love than the desire of the hungry for rice.

True love is the offspring of reason.