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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

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Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

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I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

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Our body is a machine for living.

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Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

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There's a way out of every situation.

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If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

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Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

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I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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