Love Is a Love of the Heart

If you can distance yourself from the object I highly recommend that you do so. For just as they who have been bitten by a serpent cannot easily be cured in the presence of those who have been wounded by the same reptile, so too the person stung by love will hardly be cured of this passion for as long as he is near to the other person who has been wounded by it. Change of place does much to cool the heat and soothe the pains of grief or love. The youth spoken of by St. Ambrose in the second book of his Concerning Repentance, returned home after a long journey. All together freed from those fond loves he had formally entertained. So greatly