Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYReal 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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Faith is the force of life.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Love those you hate you.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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