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• It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
• Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
• A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
• Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
• A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought…
• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
• Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
• The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and…
• To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
• Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather…

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