Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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Money is coined liberty.

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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

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Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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