A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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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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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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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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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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Life did not stop, and one had to live.
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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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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