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" The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. "

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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. "

" All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. "

" We lost because we told ourselves we lost. "

" 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. "

" We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. "

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

" 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. "

" In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. "

" He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. "

" Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. "

" I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. "

" It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. "

" And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. "

" If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. "

" Music is the shorthand of emotion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to be happy, be. "

" An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person. "

" The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. "

" There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. "

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

" 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. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. "

" Boredom: the desire for desires. "

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

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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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" Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "