Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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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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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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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God is the same everywhere.
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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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.
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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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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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If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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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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