Alexei Fedorovich Losev. Life (№ 267242)

Love people not for anything. Love is not a transaction, not a contract, not a selfish exchange of things, not law. Loves loves not because favorite - high, great, immense. Parents love children and children love parents, not for the highest virtues, and because they are each other's family. Noble citizen loves his country also not for the fact that it is everywhere and always, in everything, and certainly a great, tall, rich, beautiful and so on. We know all the thorny path of our country; we know many and weary years of struggle, lack, and suffering. But for the son of his homeland all of this - his own, inherent, native; he lives and dies with it; he have this, and it is the native, and is himself.