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- The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
- We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of…
- The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and…
- We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our…
- Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all…
- All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.
- A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love.…
- A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and…
- Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.
- It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle