There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food.
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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.
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The anarchists are right in everything in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that a.
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