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" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

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" When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. "

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" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "

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" Humility is attentive patience. "

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

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" Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. "

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" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "

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" It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. "

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" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "

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" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "

" More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. "