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.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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A 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.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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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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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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