If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
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