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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."

"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."

"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."

"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."

"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."

"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."

"The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations."
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