How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.Albert Camus
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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