Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYKings are the slaves of history.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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 two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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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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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.
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