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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Leo Tolstoy

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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