It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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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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