A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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