It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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