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"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being
"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Life
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Imagination
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Education
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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