The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
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.
The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
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.