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- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.
- To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in…
- The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless…
- Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them…
- We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
- Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for…
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
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