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“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
― leo tolstoy, War and Peace

“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.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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

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

“God is the same everywhere.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Speech is silver but silence is golden.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace