To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

The whole world is one family.

Only powerful people have liberty.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

The damaged loves the damaged.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

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