Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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