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.
LEO TOLSTOYMan 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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