“Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.”
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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