Leo Tolstoy

1. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
2. “Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
3. “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.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
4. “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
5. “Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
6. “Society can be improved only by self-sacrifice.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
7. “Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
   -Leo Tolstoy
8. “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
9. “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.”
   -Leo Tolstoy
10. “If you want to preserve your good name, do not praise yourself and do not so much as allow others to praise you.”
    -Leo Tolstoy
11. “Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people.”
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12. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
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13. “You should do goodness without choosing to whom.”
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14. “The hero of my tale—whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful—is truth.”
    -Leo Tolstoy
15. “All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
    -Leo Tolstoy
16. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”
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17. “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. 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.”
    -Leo Tolstoy
18. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
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19. “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
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20. “If you want to be happy, be.”
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21. “If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”
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22. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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23. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    -Leo Tolstoy
24. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work and look around you.”
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25. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    -Leo Tolstoy