![The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-same-suffering-is-much-harder-to-bear-for-a-high-motive-than-for-a-base-one.jpg)
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