...and when the bloom of youth fades the Friendship [love] sometimes ceases also, because then the lover derives no pleasure from seeing, and the object of his affection ceases to receive the attentions which were paid before.... (Nichomechan Ethics, Aristotle, Bk. IV)
Friendship [love] comes to be broken up because the motives to it cease to exist: the parties loved not one another but [only certain] qualities in one another which are not permanent, and so neither are the Friendships [permanent]: whereas the Friendship [love] based upon the moral character ofthe parties...is permanent.... (Nichomechean Ethics, Aristotle, Bk. IX, pt. 1, italics, mine)
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Friendship [love] comes to be broken up because the motives to it cease to exist: the parties loved not one another but [only certain] qualities in one another which are not permanent, and so neither are the Friendships [permanent]: whereas the Friendship [love] based upon the moral character ofthe parties...is permanent.... (Nichomechean Ethics, Aristotle, Bk. IX, pt. 1, italics, mine)
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ethc10.txt
Love
you and i have so much love,
that it burns like a fire,
in which we bake a lump of clay
molded into a figure of you and a figure of me.
then we take both of them,
and break them into pieces,
and mix the pieces with water,
and mold again a figure of you, and a figure of me.
i am in your clay. you are in my clay.
in life we share a single quilt.
in death we will share one coffin
verses by Kuan Tao-Sheng 1262-1319
"I Will", by The Beatles
Image by Constantin Brâncuşi
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