Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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Degree Human Knowledge Wisdom
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
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Conviction Fight War
Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
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Alive Bury Dead Happiness Inspirational Live
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Compatible Count Deal Happiness Marriage
We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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Couple Fall In Love One Liner Romantic Sleep
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
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Feeling Love Possible Share
Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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Growth Help Life Spiritual
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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Clothes Food Giving Man Shame Strave Unhappy
Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Alone Eternal General God Love Retrurn Source United
Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!
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Bad Honesty Liar
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
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Examine Fragment Human Kill Science Understand
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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Calm Chance Course Danger Excitement Existence Movement Myself Sacrifice Want
The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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Discover Law Love Reason
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Goodness Greatness Minimalism Simplicity Truth
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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Darkness Divide Happiness Hope Light World
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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Couple Romantic Sun
Faith is the force of life.
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Faith Force Life One Liner
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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Complete Knowledge Life Necessary Real Wisdom
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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Giving Increase People Poverty
Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Book Happiness Ideas Music Nature Rest
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
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Company Intelligence Man Women Young
Love those you hate you.
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Hate Love One Liner
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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God Happiness Himself Rise Seek Surrender Temple Unhappy
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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Art Life Man Personal Success Universal
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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Deaf History People
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
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Emotion Music One Liner

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