Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
LEO TOLSTOYSeize 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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