The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYAll the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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God is the same everywhere.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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 whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Faith is the force of life.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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