All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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