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.
LEO TOLSTOYThe whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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