All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
LEO TOLSTOYBe bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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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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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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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.
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Faith is the force of life.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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