It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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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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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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Great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.
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The best stories don’t come from “good vs. bad” but “good vs. good.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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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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If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
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