We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYAll happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Love those you hate you.
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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.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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