02-07-2020, 01:39 PM
Don't forget, I could not love thee half so well, loved I not honor more. In other words, honor sets a limit on love: you have to have it to maximize (the value of) your affection. And your beloved must be honorable, for your love of that beloved to be of the highest quality.
Love being, as it is, so devalued and derided these days, no wonder honor shares its fate.
(The joke is that Julius Caesar, of that quote, was quite modern in his polyamory by contemporary accounts - "Every woman's husband, and every man's wife," it was said. But politics may have entered into the accusation.)
Love being, as it is, so devalued and derided these days, no wonder honor shares its fate.
(The joke is that Julius Caesar, of that quote, was quite modern in his polyamory by contemporary accounts - "Every woman's husband, and every man's wife," it was said. But politics may have entered into the accusation.)
Non-practicing atheist