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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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

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

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

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