It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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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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