In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Faith is the force of life.
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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
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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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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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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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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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