We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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