A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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 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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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