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.
LEO TOLSTOYLove those you hate you.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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