For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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

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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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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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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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

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

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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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