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> [“But if love and friendship are weaknesses, they are basic human weaknesses: by which I mean that they are weaknesses so endemic to our nature that if one seeks, as the Stoics urge, to avoid being subject to them, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-slote/but-if-love-and-friendship-are-weaknesses-they-are-basic-human/)

Michael Slote

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## More by Michael Slote

> [“But if love and friendship are weaknesses, they are basic human weaknesses: by which I mean that they are weaknesses so endemic to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-slote/but-if-love-and-friendship-are-weaknesses-they-are-basic-human/)

Michael Slote

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