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1 " The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... "
― Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace
2 " You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. "
3 " We are asleep until we fall in Love! "
4 " Everything I know, I know because of love. "
5 " Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. "
6 " If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. "
7 " Life did not stop, and one had to live. "
8 " 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. "
9 " One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is. "
10 " ...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together. "
11 " There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. "
12 " Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. "
13 " It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle. "
14 " God is the same everywhere. "
15 " He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. "
16 " Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni. "
17 " How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It’s all vanity, it’s all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing – that’s all there is. But there isn’t even that. There’s nothing but stillness and peace. Thank God for that! "
18 " We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. "
19 " If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain them. We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live "
20 " He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. "
