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"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
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"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
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"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."
Religion
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
Life
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
Happiness
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
Money
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Beauty
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
Man
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
People
"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
Love
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
Man
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
Power
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