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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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