Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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 comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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