Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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

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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.

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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

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Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.

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Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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