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Order Quotes by Simone Weil
- Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens…
- The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,…
- There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body."…
- To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
- It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is…
- Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
- Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like…
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