In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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