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State of war and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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"We can know only that nosotros know cipher. And that is the highest degree of man wisdom."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Aught is so necessary for a young homo equally the visitor of intelligent women."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Fourth dimension and Patience."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"If everyone fought for their own convictions in that location would be no state of war."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: i is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is non, and there is dejection and darkness..."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Pierre was correct when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in club to be happy, and I at present believe in it. Permit the dead bury the dead, but while I'one thousand alive, I must live and be happy."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"It'south not given to people to approximate what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and volition be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider correct and wrong."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"You can dear a person dear to you with a human honey, but an enemy can only be loved with divine honey."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"If nosotros admit that human life can exist ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

"Nosotros are asleep until we fall in Love!"
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the but reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one affair we are interested in here."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"I only want to alive; to cause no evil to anyone only myself."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything I know, I know because of dearest."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Yes, beloved, ...merely not the dearest that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first fourth dimension, when dying, I saw my enemy and nevertheless loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now as well. To dearest ane's neighbours; to dear one's enemies. To beloved everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some i dearest to one can be loved with human dear; but an enemy can but be loved with divine beloved. And that was why I felt such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is he alive? ...Loving with human love, one may laissez passer from love to hatred; but divine dearest cannot modify. Null, not even decease, can shatter it. It is the very nature of the soul. And how many people I have hated in my life. And of all people none I take loved and hated more than her.... If it were merely possible for me to see her once more... in one case, looking into those eyes to say..."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no ane could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

"Homo cannot possess annihilation as long every bit he fears expiry. Simply to him who does non fright it, everything belongs. If in that location was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. "
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"How can one be well...when one suffers morally?"
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Human science fragments everything in guild to understand it, kills everything in social club to examine it. "
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"A man on a g 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 upwards and sleep."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'Simply if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through information technology all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and swallow horseflesh again. Nosotros imagine that every bit soon equally nosotros are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but information technology is only the start of something new and good. As long as there is life, at that place is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"It's all God's volition: you tin can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Here'south my advice to yous: don't ally until y'all tin tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until yous've stopped loving the women yous've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll exist cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when yous're former and good for nothing...Otherwise all that'south good and lofty in you lot will be lost."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"Everything depends on upbringing. "
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible equally pure and complete joy."
― Leo Tolstoy, State of war and Peace

"A Frenchman'southward self-balls stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's self-balls is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does equally an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-bodacious because he is excitable and hands forgets. A Russian is self-assured simply because he knows nothing and does non desire to know anything, since he does non believe in the possibility of knowing anything fully."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Here I am alive, and it'due south not my mistake, so I accept to try and get by equally all-time I can without hurting everyone until death takes over."
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

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