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A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.

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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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Live to the point of tears.

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How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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