Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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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 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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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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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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If you want to be happy, be.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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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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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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