Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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