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Leo Tolstoy
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
“All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.”
“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different direct...
“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be ...
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves t...
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never mak...
“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for ...
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...”
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outs...
“I think... if it is true thatthere are as many minds as thereare heads, then there are as manykinds of love as there ar...
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the...
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now bel...
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the ...
“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
“You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irr...
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and...
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
“God is the same everywhere.”
“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”
