Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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