"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
-Simone Weil
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"The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.“
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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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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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"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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