A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
LEO TOLSTOYAll great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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