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A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Variant translation: But the highest passion in a human being is faith

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manoeuvre, a blow with an agreement.



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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.
I have a heart with room for every joy.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.
A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.
If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.