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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy

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
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Consist Happiness Honeymoon Live Travel Vacation
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Degree Human Knowledge Wisdom
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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Divine Enemy Human Love Person
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Cry Deep Eat Hustle Motivational Wolf Worse
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
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Gold Growth Obtain Truth Wash
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Absolute Attain Knowledge Life Man
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Anniversary Couple Love Marriage Person
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
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
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Hard Love One Liner Woman

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