"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
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"Confine yourself to the present."
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"I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love."
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"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
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"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them."
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"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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"The sovereign cure for worry is prayer."
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"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
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"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
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"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
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"Wisest is he who knows what he does not know."
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
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"For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors."
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"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
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"A home without books is a body without soul."
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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
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