Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
LEO TOLSTOYReal 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Love those you hate you.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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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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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Don’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.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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