Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYWhat a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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If you want to be happy, be.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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