War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
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We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
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A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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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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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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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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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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