Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Love those you hate you.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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