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Paul VI

Paul VI

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Life does not belong to man. It surpasses him because it has been received from God. It is sacred. No man can dispose of it at will.

Paul VI

Paul VI

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Do not despise the memory of the path traveled. It does not delay your race, but directs it; he who forgets the starting point easily loses the goal.

Paul VI

Paul VI

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One can sin against the truth as much by calculated omissions as by inaccurate information.

Marcel Pagnol

Marcel Pagnol

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If you can't cheat with your friends, it's not worth playing cards.

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

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A bad cause will always be defended with bad means and by bad men.

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

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If there must be conflicts, let them be while I live, so that my son can live in peace.

Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés

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When we are on the edge of an abyss and the night is dark, the wise rider loosens the reins and surrenders to the horse's instinct.

Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés

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Life has not been given to us to be happy, but to deserve to be so.

Charles Palissot de Montenoy

Charles Palissot de Montenoy

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Fanaticism is to religion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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Destiny does not reign without the secret complicity of instinct and will.

Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

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I want to know everything. And I always find myself as before, as sad as life and as resigned as wisdom.