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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.

Leo Tolstoy

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
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
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life Love Understand
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love Peace Whisper
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Inspirational Key Life People Success Thinking Wise
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
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Giving Increase People Poverty
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
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Love Reason Understand
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
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Happiness Interest Love Moments Reality World
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
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Chnage Himself Inspirational Thinking World

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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