A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything I know, I know because of love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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