Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Business One Liner Planning Project Spring Time
It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Battle Die God Sleep Spare Willing
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.
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Finding Hope Invisible Midst Summer Winter
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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Belong Bread Eat Life Pieces Share Starve
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
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Complete Impossible Joy Pure Sorrow
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
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God Happiness People Please Want
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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Intellectual Life Live Understand
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
LEO TOLSTOY

Capable Difficult People Rare Truth Young
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.
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Conceal Debate Reveal Solitude Truth
It’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
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Hard Love One Liner Woman
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
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Head Heart Kind Love Mind True
Without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us – there is no life.
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Happiness Life Love Unhappy
Every heart has its own skeletons.
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Heart One Liner Skeleton
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Cease Conscience Majority Share Truth Wrong
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
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Ability Happiness Love One Liner
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Life Love Understand
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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Improvement Increase Life Person Positive Task
He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
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Afraid Fear Love Soul
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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Cover Empty Invention Love Place Respect
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Cease God Look Moments Name Work
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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Anniversary Couple I Love You Love Person Valentine
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
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Beauty Charm Diversity Life Light Shade
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Business Inspirational Patience Powerful Time Warrior
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
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Cunning One Liner Wicked World
Everything I know, I know because of love.
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Couple Love One Liner Positive
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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Belong Death Fear Himself Inspirational Limitation Man Suffering

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