• Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

    Thomas Aquinas: Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
    Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3052, Library of Alexandria