I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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