Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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