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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Top 10 Best Quotes

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

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

“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“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...”

“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.”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”

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