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  ...to see clearly, to care for what is just and therefore to be impartial, more exactly, to be disinterested, more exactly still, to be impersonal.
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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.  
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it...   Amiel, Henri Frederic

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