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

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

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

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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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