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• ‟ Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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• ‟ Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

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• ‟ The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

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• ‟ The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

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• ‟ There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

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