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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

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History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

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He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

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Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

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The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

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Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

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In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

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