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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

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
A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Battle Solution Win
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
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Company Intelligence Man Women Young
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Conceal Debate Reveal Solitude Truth
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Endurance Goals Himself Man Sleep Walk War
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
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Ability Happiness Love One Liner
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
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
God is the same everywhere.
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God One Liner Same
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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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Come Inspirational Patience Time Wait

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