The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

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