I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
LEO TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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