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

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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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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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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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

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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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