We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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