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"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

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"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."

"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."

"I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give."

"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."

"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."

"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."

"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."

"Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct."
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