A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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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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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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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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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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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 does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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