It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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 key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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