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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.



Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.



Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.



Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.



Boredom: the desire for desires.



A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.



Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.



There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.



Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.



Thou shall not kill does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai



Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. -- Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.



If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.








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