Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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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.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Love those you hate you.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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