It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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