Whether love is cause of all that the lover does?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that the lover does not do everything from love. For love is a passion, as stated above (Question [26], Article [2]). But man does not do everything from passion: but some things he does from choice, and some things from ignorance, as stated in Ethic. v, 8. Therefore not everything that a man does, is done from love.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, the appetite is a principle of movement and action in all animals, as stated in De Anima iii, 10. If, therefore, whatever a man does is done from love, the other passions of the appetitive faculty are superfluous.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, nothing is produced at one and the same time by contrary causes. But some things are done from hatred. Therefore all things are not done from love.