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.
LEO TOLSTOYIf 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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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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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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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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