If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
LEO TOLSTOYThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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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 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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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