Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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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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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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God is the same everywhere.
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In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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