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1. All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
2. War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
3. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
4. Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
5. An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life — becoming a better person.
6. If you want to be happy, be.
7. In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
8. The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
9. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
10. Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
11. Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
12. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
13. Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
14. To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
15. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
16. One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
17. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
18. The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
19. There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
20. 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.