We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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