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Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
Leo Tolstoy |
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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, 1877) |
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1869) |
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy (Quoted in Tolstoy's Diaries, 1985) |
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy (Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence, 1886)
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If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy |
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1869) |
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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, 1869)
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| 2 |
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, 1877) |
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy (Three Methods Of Reform, 1900) |
The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change.
