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.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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