It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would 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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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