Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
LEO TOLSTOYMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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 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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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