I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOYDon’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Love those you hate you.
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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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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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