Love styles

  • Eros – a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
  • Ludus – a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
  • Storge – an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity (kindred to Philia)
  • Pragma – love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative
  • Mania – obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers
  • Agape – selfless altruistic love
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    O Fortuna

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    from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

    O Fortuna
    velut luna
    statu variabilis,
    semper crescis
    aut decrescis;
    vita detestabilis
    nunc obdurat
    et tunc curat
    ludo mentis aciem,
    egestatem,
    potestatem
    dissolvit ut glaciem.

    Sors immanis
    et inanis,
    rota tu volubilis,
    status malus,
    vana salus
    semper dissolubilis,
    obumbrata
    et velata
    michi quoque niteris;
    nunc per ludum
    dorsum nudum
    fero tui sceleris.

    Sors salutis
    et virtutis
    michi nunc contraria,
    est affectus
    et defectus
    semper in angaria.
    Hac in hora
    sine mora
    corde pulsum tangite;
    quod per sortem
    sternit fortem,
    mecum omnes plangite!

    O Fortune,
    just like the moon
    thou art variable,
    always dost thou
    wax and wane.
    Detestable life,
    first dost thou mistreat us,
    and then, whimsically,
    thou heedest our desires.
    As the sun melts the ice,
    so dost thou dissolve
    both poverty and power.

    Monstrous
    and empty fate,
    thou, turning wheel,
    art mean,
    voiding
    good health at thy will.
    Veiled
    in obscurity,
    thou dost attack
    me also.
    To thy cruel pleasure
    I bare my back.

    Thou dost withdraw
    my health and virtue;
    thou dost threaten
    my emotion
    and weakness
    with torture.
    At this hour,
    therefore, let us
    pluck the strings without
    delay.
    Let us mourn together,
    for fate crushes the brave.