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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
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
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Dangerous Existence Human Tremble
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Love is not consolation, it is light.
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Life Light Love
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
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Direction Distance Ourselves Sin Wrong
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World

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