id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt web-archive-org-5673 SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The passions of the soul in particular: and first, of love (Prima Secundae Partis, Q. 26) .html text/html 2666 227 76 Further, love seems to be identified with every passion: for Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7): "Love, yearning for the object beloved, is desire; having and enjoying it, is joy; fleeing what is contrary to it, is fear; and feeling what is contrary to it, is sadness." But not every passion is in the concupiscible power; indeed, fear, which is mentioned in this passage, is in the irascible power. Natural love is not only in the powers of the vegetal soul, but in all the soul's powers, and also in all the parts of the body, and universally in all things: because, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. Further, if dilection and love differ, it seems that it is chiefly in the fact that "dilection refers to good things, love to evil things, as some have maintained," according to Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7). For "love is a passion, while friendship is a habit," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. ./cache/web-archive-org-5673.html ./txt/web-archive-org-5673.txt