Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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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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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 midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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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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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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