Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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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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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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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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