"Love gives joy only if it is complete, divine, if you love everyone, that is, you love God and do not expect any reward from God or from people, if no one knows it. As soon as even a single person appears whom you do not love, or the care of being praised, the care that love is useful to you, the good of love disappears. (Madness in Christ.)
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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Love gives joy only if it is complete, divine, if you love everyone, that is, you love God and do not expect any reward from God or from people, if no one knows it. As soon as even a single person appears whom you do not love, or the care of being praised, the care that love is useful to you, the good of love disappears. (Madness in Christ.)
""Iubirea dăruiește bucurie numai dacă e deplină, divină, dacă îi iubești pe toți, adică îl iubești pe Dumnezeu și nu aștepți vreo răsplată nici de la Dumnezeu, nici de la oameni, dacă nimeni n-o cunoaște. Cum apare fie și un singur om pe care nu-l iubești, sau grija de a fi lăudat, grija ca iubirea să-ți fie de folos, dispare binele iubirii. (Nebunia întru Hristos.)"