We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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