If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
LEO TOLSTOYGreat achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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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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Love those you hate you.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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