Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Faith is the force of life.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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