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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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.Mortimer Adler
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.
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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.
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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.
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Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.
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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.
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