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" Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. "

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" If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. "

" 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. "

" We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. "

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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. "

" Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. "

" 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. "

" The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. "

" An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. "

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" Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. "

" One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. "

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

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" We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. "