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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.
In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
It is completely unimportant... That is why it is so interesting.
You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape.
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.