Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Love those you hate you.
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