“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
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“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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