Love plays a greater role in the theater than in the actual life of man. Love has always provided material for comic plays and sometimes, for tragic plays. But in the actual life, love causes much mischief. It May wreck the career of a man as it did that of Antony, or it may drive a man mad with jealousy as it did with Othello.
No great or worthy person, whether of ancient of modern times, has been known to have fallen in love to the extent of losing his mental balance. This shows that men of high spirit and those who build up a vast business are able to keep away from love.
It is really strange to observe that the passion of love distorts a man's judgement of things. Exaggeration is odious, but it does not seem odious in a man who is in love. Love inclines a man to the use of extravagant language. The most extravagant flattery offered by a man to himself ; a man is his own greatest flatterer. But the flattery that a love offers to his beloved is greater even than the flattery which a man offers to himself. A man has the highest opinion for himself, but a lover has an even higher opinion about his beloved. A lover, indeed, becomes absurd in his use of extravagant words about his beloved. Therefore, it is rightly been said that one can not love and be wise at the same time. The absurd exaggeration on the part of a love is perceived not only by others but also by the beloved. A woman who does not reciprocate the love of a man feels an inward contempt for him and therefore inwardly scoffs at at the extravagant language which he employs with regard to her.
No great or worthy person, whether of ancient of modern times, has been known to have fallen in love to the extent of losing his mental balance. This shows that men of high spirit and those who build up a vast business are able to keep away from love.
It is really strange to observe that the passion of love distorts a man's judgement of things. Exaggeration is odious, but it does not seem odious in a man who is in love. Love inclines a man to the use of extravagant language. The most extravagant flattery offered by a man to himself ; a man is his own greatest flatterer. But the flattery that a love offers to his beloved is greater even than the flattery which a man offers to himself. A man has the highest opinion for himself, but a lover has an even higher opinion about his beloved. A lover, indeed, becomes absurd in his use of extravagant words about his beloved. Therefore, it is rightly been said that one can not love and be wise at the same time. The absurd exaggeration on the part of a love is perceived not only by others but also by the beloved. A woman who does not reciprocate the love of a man feels an inward contempt for him and therefore inwardly scoffs at at the extravagant language which he employs with regard to her.
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