A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.
LEO TOLSTOYA 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.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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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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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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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be.
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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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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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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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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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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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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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