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.
LEO TOLSTOYI simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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God is the same everywhere.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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