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"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist."
"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it."
"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."
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"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
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