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

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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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

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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.

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

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