Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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