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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

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You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

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Love those you hate you.

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What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

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It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

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As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

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Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

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When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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When joy disappears, look for your mistake

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