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.
LEO TOLSTOYNothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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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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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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