It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr. ). Any … - African Spir

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The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more.

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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr. ). Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr. ) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr. ) in that way (. . . . in French "par là", Fr. ) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.

Flaunt, Greatness, Outwardly, Rising Up, What If, Whatsoever

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It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr. ), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr. ) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

Boredom, Elses, Faute, Feelings, Mirages, Needs

It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr. ) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr. ); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.

Country, Equally, Governing, Liberty, Long, Ressortissants

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science". . . We would not (On ne saurait", Fr. ) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

Art, Imagine, Men, Raise, War

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

Cain, Fratricidal, Humanity, Supreme, Urgent, War

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr. ); all that involve (or imply. . . ) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

Contradictory, Destined, Fatally, Lasts, Long, Running