We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYDon’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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