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

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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

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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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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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