Condicions d'amor: De veritat e amor
The Foundation of True Love
True love requires a genuine difference between friend and beloved, and cannot be feigned.
No one who loves the true glory of love falsely is a true friend. II. In the essence of love, friend and beloved cannot be named without a true difference between the two.1
The Incompatibility of Falsehood
A false lover cannot be in concord with a true beloved, and truth and love cannot dwell with falsehood.
III. For a false lover can't have concord with the true beloved; truth and love can't share themselves with a false lover. IV.2 Nothing can be contrary to true love. V. Without the truth of love, the friend can't begin to sigh truly and to love.3
The Security of True Love
When true love stands between lover and beloved, the lover has no fear of a false lover.
vi. When true love stands between lover and beloved, the lover has no fear of a false lover.
The Banner of True Lovers
The true end of love is the sign and banner of true and loyal lovers.
vii. The true purpose of love is the sign and banner of genuine, loyal lovers.4
The Power and Humility of Truth
Greater truth destroys false love, equality of truth and love makes a bold lover, but lesser truth fears falsehood.
viii. By a greater truth of love the lover can destroy all false love. ix. Equality of truth and love has nothing greater above it, and it makes a bold lover.5 x. A lesser degree of true love fears a false person.6
Read the original Catalan
No es vertader amic qui falsament ama vera glòria d amor. jj. No poden ésser nombrats, en essència d amor, amic e amat, sens vera differencia damdós.
iij. Car fals amador no pot aver concordansa ab ver amat, no poden veritat e amor participar ab fals amador, iiij. A vertadera amor neguna res no pot ésser contrari. V. Sens veritat d amor, no pot lamic comcnsar ver suspirar e amar.
vj. Can vera amor està enfre amic e amat, no ha lamic paor de fals amador.
vij. Vera fi d amor es senyal e senyera de vertaders e Icyals amadors.
viij. Ab major veritat damor pot lamic destruir tota falsa amor. viiij. Egaltat de veritat e amor no ha sobre sí major, e fa ardit amador. X. Menoritat de vera amor ha paor de fals home.
Notes
- 1 ↩'nombrats' can mean named/called or numbered/counted; rendered as 'named' for the essència/differencia contrast.
- 2 ↩Trailing 'iiij.' is the next article numeral (IV) attached to this sentence in the source segmentation; rendered in place as 'IV.' without splitting refs.
- 3 ↩Source 'comcnsar' read as corrupt/OCR for 'començar' (to begin); translated as 'begin'.
- 4 ↩Source reading "Icyals" is almost certainly a corrupt form of Catalan "leials" (loyal); translated accordingly.
- 5 ↩Egaltat is Llull's correlative principle of Equality; rendered as 'Equality' to keep the Art's abstract subject, not mere sameness of feeling.
- 6 ↩Menoritat is Llull's correlative principle of Minority/Lesserness, parallel to Egaltat in s4; 'lesserness' keeps that Art sense rather than ordinary smallness.
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