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- There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two…
- If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so:…
- Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.
- If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- If you want to be happy, be happy.
- If you want to be happy, just be.
- All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
- Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because…
- But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't…
- I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
- So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you…
- You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one…
- I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that,…
- She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
- If you want to be happy, be.
- If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity…
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