Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYEach person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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