To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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 everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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