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Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what i

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler

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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. – Mortimer Adler

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Faith
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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. – Mortimer Adler

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Education
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

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Love is suffering. One side always loves more. – Catherine Deneuve

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Love in its essence is spiritual fire. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. – Albert Camus

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