There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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