The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOY
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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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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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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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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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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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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