The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
LEO TOLSTOYTruth, 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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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