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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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

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

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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Money is coined liberty.

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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

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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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