“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.