My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
LEO TOLSTOYI often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Love those you hate you.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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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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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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