Kings are the slaves of history.
LEO TOLSTOYIs it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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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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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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