7 Great Quotes By Leo Tolstoy
I have quoted Tolstoy more than a few times …
I thought that thoughts that taught great lives (including Mahatma Gandhi’s and mine
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I thought that thoughts that taught great lives (including Mahatma Gandhi’s and mine


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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way – Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
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