The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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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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