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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Leo Tolstoy

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Greatness Journey Literature Man Story Strange Town
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Desire Fear She Woman
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
If you want to be happy, be.
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Happiness One Liner Positive Want
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Activity Alone Human Love Mankind Pursuit Reason
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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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper
Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Degree Human Knowledge Wisdom
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

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