Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYThe only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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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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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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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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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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