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

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

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

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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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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

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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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