but outward self-sacrificing unselfishness is required if love is truly to be praised, and to want to praise love in the love of truth is indeed the work of love. it is easy enough to gain earthly advantages and, what is most lamentable of all, win the approval of people by proclaiming all sorts of deception. but truly this is not loving. the opposite is loving: in love of the truth and of humanity to will to make every sacrifice in order to proclaim the truth and, on the other hand, to will not to sacrifice the least bit of the truth.
-soren kierkegaard works of love
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