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• If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
• Immature love says: "I love you because I need you.
  Mature love says "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm...
• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
• The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 78...
• Barney of Borg: You will be assimilated because I love you.
• All is fear in love and war.