We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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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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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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