If you want to be happy, be.
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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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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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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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