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Happiness is pleasure without regret

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What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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