We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYOnly 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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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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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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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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’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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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