Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth. Romance and Reality, vol. 1, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, p. 108.
The translation into the word "love" includes love of things as well as people. The Eigen translation is "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of those relationships with people and those thiongs about which a person is passionate." The Greeks had 7 diffferent words for love od different kinds and things. But the Latin in which this was written is a much less precice lanaguage, quite like English in that respect. The object of the passion might be people, a political movement, a area of study and inquiry like science or mathamatics, the production of something as in art music or literature--even a sport. But if the quality of the object of the passion is poor, the happiness rarely lasts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
