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"Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor."
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"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
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"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
Feelings
"I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end."
Death
"The family is the first essential cell of human society."
Family
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
Dream
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
Father
"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."
End
"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention."
Work
"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."
Night
"A peaceful man does more good than a learned one."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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