All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

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And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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