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• The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal…
• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.…
• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it…
• Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to…
• Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being....
• The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
• Fire destroys that which feeds it.
• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it…
• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which…
• Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself…
• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
• When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements…

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