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

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

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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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Money is coined liberty.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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

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