The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYIf you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Kings are the slaves of history.
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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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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Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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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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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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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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