When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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The more stitches, the less riches.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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