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Beware of analogies: for millenia they corrupted medicine, and it may be their fault that today's pedagogical systems are so numerous, and after three thousand years of argument we still don't know which is best.

— Primo Levi The Wrench (1978)

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If he believes time has run its course,
A man is a sad thing too.

Collected Poems (1984)

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

If This Is a Man (1947)

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