If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
LEO TOLSTOYI simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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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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