"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."

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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Love truth, but pardon error."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year," says Zoroaster."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"

"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

"Love truth, but pardon error."

"He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."

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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

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