It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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I’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.
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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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God is the same everywhere.
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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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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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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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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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