I will go further and maintain that virtue is no less favourable to love than to other rights of nature, and… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

I will go further and maintain that virtue is no less favourable to love than to other rights of nature, and that it adds as much to the power of the beloved as to that of the wife or mother. There is no real love without enthusiasm, and no enthusiasm without an object of perfection real or supposed, but always present in the imagination.

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