To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYI’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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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 all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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