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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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 simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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God is the same everywhere.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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