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/ page 1135 of 1205 /Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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