If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
LEO TOLSTOYEverything intelligent is so boring.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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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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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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