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  • Potentiorum aedes ostratim adiens, aliquid accipiebat, canens carmina sua, concomitante eum puerorum choro.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Amor est titillatio, concomitante idea causae externae

    Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

  • This connection is, indeed, the basis of Spinoza's famous definition of love, -- "_Amor est titillatio quædam concomitante idea causæ externæ_," -- a statement which seems to be reflected in Chamfort's definition of love as "_l'échange de deux fantaisies, et le contact de deux epidermes_."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The mediaeval writer Leon Hebraeus evidently knew of no other when he defined love as "a desire to enjoy that which is good"; nor Spinoza when he defined it as _laetetia concomitante idea externae causae_ -- a pleasure accompanied by the thought of its external cause.

    Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • To amuse the reader, on the other hand, Spinoza's definition deserves to be quoted because of its exuberant na�vet�: _Amor est titillatio, concomitante idea causae externae_ (_Eth. _ iv., prop. 44).

    Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824

  • That is, pride is pleasure, and humility is pain, associated with certain conceptions of one's self; or, as Spinoza puts it: -- "Superbia est de se præ amore sui plus justo sentire" ( "amor" being "lætitia concomitante idea causæ externæ"); and "Humilitas est tristitia orta ex eo quod homo suam impotentiam sive imbecillitatem contemplatur."

    Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • [Footnote: "Nempe, Amor nihil aliud est, quam Lætitia, concomitante idea causæ externæ."

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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