Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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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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Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.
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