I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOYGod is the same everywhere.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal 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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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