All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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