“I often think that people do not understand what is noble and what is ignorant, although they always talk about it.”
Love is life. Everything, everything I understand, is only because I love. Everything is, everything exists only because I love. All is unity only because of love. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, will return to the universal and eternal source.
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If you seek perfection, you will never be satisfied [with what you have achieved so far].
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Freethinkers are those who have the will to use their minds without prejudice and without fear of understanding things that clash with their own customs, privileges, and superstitions. This state of mind is not common, but it is absolutely necessary for right thinking.
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All happy families are alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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When you truly love someone, you love the person for who they are, not who you want them to be.
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What matters more to a happy marriage is not how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibilities.
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If you want to be happy, be one.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Love. The reason I don’t like that word is because it means too much to me, way more than you can understand.
A sin does not cease to be a sin because the majority shares it.
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If everyone fought for their own beliefs, there would be no wars.
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There is nothing more necessary for a young man than the company of intelligent women.
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All great literature contains one of these two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger returns home.
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I often think that people do not understand what is noble and what is ignorant, although they always talk about it.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be liars, cheaters!
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A secluded life in the country, with an opportunity of being useful to people, to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to it; then you work in the hope that you can be of further use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor – this is my idea of happiness.
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Every lie is poison. There are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth brings me comfort. It is like an unbreakable diamond.
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Who is worse? The wolf that cries before it eats the lamb, or the wolf that doesn’t.
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Instead of going to Paris to be lectured, go to the public library, and for twenty years you will not leave it, if you really want to study.
