Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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