I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYArt lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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