The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

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