Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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