Love without conversation is impossible.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
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.
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
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.
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
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.
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.
We love even when our love is not requited.
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.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.