Spring is the time of plans and projects.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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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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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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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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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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