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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Forgiveness Imagination Myself
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
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Beautiful Eyes Inspirational Ourselves Sea
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession

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