“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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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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.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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