Tenderness is a virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.