Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
civilization And Its Discontentsby sigmund Freud
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
love / reflection / throw / valuable
A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.
discriminate / injustice / love / value / worthy
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
escape / Seek / standards / underestimate / value
Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures. There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.