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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.

Leo Tolstoy

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Finding Hope Invisible Midst Summer Winter
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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Desire Fear She Woman
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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Giving Increase People Poverty
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Beauty Goodness Illusion Strange Suppose
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love Reason Understand
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Family Happiness Unhappy
It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Eternal Judgement Mistake People Right Wrong
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Break Consolation Diamond Harm Lie Poison Safe Truth
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Business Inspirational Patience Powerful Time Warrior
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Admit Destroy Human Life Possible Reason Rule
The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Business Entrepreneur Goodness Story Success
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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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering

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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