The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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God is the same everywhere.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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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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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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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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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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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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