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.
LEO TOLSTOYPure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one 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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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