To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOYA man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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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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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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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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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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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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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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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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