"When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love."
-Mortimer Adler
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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.“
-Mortimer Adler
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"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."
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"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
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"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."
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"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
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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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