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.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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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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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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