To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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