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• To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
• The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to…
• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
• It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of…
• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is…
• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,…
• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
• Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so…
• We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that…

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