It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Faith is the force of life.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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