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 TOLSTOYMusic is the shorthand of emotion.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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 you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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