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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.

Leo Tolstoy

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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Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
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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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
Love those you hate you.
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Hate Love One Liner
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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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
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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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
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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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
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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Love Reason Understand
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Change Life Occur One Liner True
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Philosophy Practice Principle Produce Volume Writing

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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