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"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."
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"Love deep is inexhaustible like a vast ocean."
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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."
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