Kings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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