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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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" In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. "
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" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "
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" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "
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" Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. "
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" I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. "
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" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "
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" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "
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