Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Love those you hate you.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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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.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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