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 TOLSTOYI always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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