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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 Tolstoy

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
Kings are the slaves of history.
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History King One Liner Slave
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
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
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
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
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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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Life Live One Liner Positive Stop
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
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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Capable Grief Heal Love Necessary People Serve Sorrow Strong
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy

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.

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