We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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