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The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than ...more

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I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.

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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned ...more

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from my...more