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.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

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Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

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