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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

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The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

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What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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There are as many loves as there are hearts.

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The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

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Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

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I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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