Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.
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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.
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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature, and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth.
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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you
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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
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