Every heart has its own skeletons.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Seize 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.
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