What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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