We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highe... - Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible."

"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."

"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."

"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."

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