If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Love those you hate you.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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