As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

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Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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