Condicions d'amor: De duració e amor
Love's Duration Begins in the Will
Love without lasting cannot have the power to love, and no love can last in a will that grows weary.
Love that doesn't last can't have the power to love. ii. Love that neither lasts nor is known has no power to love. iii. No love can last in a will that grows tired of loving.1
Virtue, Glory, and True Love
The virtue that makes love last ought to be loved, false love cannot last, lasting glory deserves great love, and a lover who distinguishes goods from the beloved's lacks enduring love.
iv. The virtue that makes love last should be loved. v. No false love can last, vi.2 Glory that lasts long should be greatly loved, vii.3 A lover who makes a distinction between his own goods and the goods of his beloved doesn't have lasting love.4
Concord, Opposition, and Wisdom
Without great love, concord cannot last; opposition destroys love; and no one is wise who begins a love that does not last.
8. Without great love, harmony between the lover and the beloved cannot last. 9. When there is conflict between the lover and the beloved, love cannot last.5 10. No one is wise who begins to love with a love that doesn't last.
Love That Stands Between
Love that stands between the lover and the beloved always endures.
11. Love that stands between the lover and the beloved always endures.
The End and Measure of Lasting Love
Whoever makes love last attains the end of loving; with little duration no love can be greater, equalizing sighs and weeping, and scant loving yields no lasting pleasure.
12. Whoever makes their love last attains the end of loving.6 13. With little duration, no love can be greater: 14.7 Whoever in love wants to equalize sighing and weeping should make their loving last.8 15. With scant loving, no pleasure can last.9
Read the original Catalan
Amor sens durar no pot aver poder d amar.
ij. Amor qui no dura ni es sabuda, no ha poder damar. iij. Negú amar pot duraren volentat quis huja damar.
iiij. Aquela vertut qui fa durar amor, deu ésser amada. V. Neguna falsa amor pot durar, vj. Glòria qui molt dura, deu ésser molt amada, vij. Amic qui fa differencia enfre los seus bens e los bens de son amat, no ha durable amor.
viij. Sens gran amor, concordansa damic e damat no pot durar, viiij. En contrarietat damic e damat, amor no pot durar. X. Negun home es savi qui comensa amar en amor qui no dura.
xj. Amor qui està en lo mig del amic e lamat, tots temps dura.
xij. Qui sa amor fa durar, aconseguex la fi d amar. xiij. Ab poc durar, neguna amor pot ésser major, viiij. Qui en amor vol egalar suspirar e plorar, fassa durar son amar. XV. Ab menoritat damar negú plaer pof durar.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source spacing looks fused: reading as 'Negú amar pot durar en volentat qui s'huja d'amar' (durar en; qui s'; huja from ujar-se, 'grow weary').
- 2 ↩Trailing 'vj.' is the next condition number attached to this sentence in the source segmentation; the propositional content is 'No false love can last.'
- 3 ↩Trailing 'vij.' is the next condition number attached to this sentence in the source segmentation.
- 4 ↩Catalan 'amic' / 'amat' rendered as lover / beloved, Llull's standard pair; 'bens' kept as 'goods' (shared benefits and possessions, not only material wealth).
- 5 ↩Catalan contrarietat can mean opposition, discord, or philosophical contrariety; rendered as opposition to pair with concord in the preceding sentence.
- 6 ↩Catalan fi here is the end as purpose/goal (finis), not merely cessation.
- 7 ↩Source ends with 'viiij.'; in sequence after xiii this is read as corrupt for 'xiiij.' (14), the next condition number attached to this sentence, matching the chapter's trailing-numeral pattern.
- 8 ↩egalar suspirar e plorar: rendered as equalizing/matching sighing and weeping with each other; could also be read as matching those love-sorrow acts in measure.
- 9 ↩Source 'pof' corrected to 'pot' (can).
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