To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. — Quoted

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“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”

Simone Weil · Power

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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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.

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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