Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
