I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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