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.
LEO TOLSTOY
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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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