There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion 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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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