Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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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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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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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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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 look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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