Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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 love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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