Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Author: Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

I do not dispute with the world; rather it is the world that disputes with me.