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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Leo Tolstoy

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Greatness Journey Literature Man Story Strange Town
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Giving Increase People Poverty
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
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
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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God Kingdom One Liner
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Darkness Divide Happiness Hope Light World
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Hard Love One Liner Woman
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
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
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
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
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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Always Ignorance Noble Talk Thinking Understand

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