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 TOLSTOYThe best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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