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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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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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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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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