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• The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar…
• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really…
• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You…
• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
• There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but…
• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can…

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