“Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.”
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
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.
