Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

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.

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.