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"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."
History

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
Life

"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
Duty

"Art, that great undogmatized church."
Art

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."
Imagination

"Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being."
Man

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
Art

"Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one."
Society

"The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present."
Future

"Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity."
Education
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