It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYMan 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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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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