All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYReal 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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