Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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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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