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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to…
• The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
• The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
• It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of…
• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,…
• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so…
• It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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