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" Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. "

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" 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. "

" Being influential is not the mark of a great book. "

" Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. "

" Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. "

" 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. "

" Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something. "

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

" Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. "

" 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. "

" We love even when our love is not requited. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. "

" In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious. "

" The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. "

" Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. "

" Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. "

" Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. "

" The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. "

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

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