Leo Tolstoy Short Quotes

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Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

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Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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The more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

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Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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There is only one enduring happiness in life—to live for others.

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

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If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

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I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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Anna smiled, as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love...

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

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