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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.

Simone Weil

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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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
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
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
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
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
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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Country Humility Myself Suffering
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
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Inspirational One Liner Sin
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

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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