Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
LEO TOLSTOYBoredom: the desire for desires.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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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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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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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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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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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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Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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