My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYI wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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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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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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