Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
LEO TOLSTOYMy piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal 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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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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