“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.