What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOYTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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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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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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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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If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
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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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I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.
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God is the same everywhere.
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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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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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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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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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