My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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