Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Love those you hate you.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Man 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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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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