I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
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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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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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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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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