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.
LEO TOLSTOYI’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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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.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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