If you want to be happy, be.
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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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