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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with L >> Quotes By Leo Tolstoy |
| Quote #1: | "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." |
| Quote #2: | "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." |
| Quote #3: | "And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people." |
| Quote #4: | "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." |
| Quote #5: | "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." |
| Quote #6: | "The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God." |
| Quote #7: | "The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity." |
| Quote #8: | "All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." |
| Quote #9: | "Music is the shorthand of emotion." |
| Quote #10: | "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." |
| Quote #11: | "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." |
| Quote #12: | "Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." |
| Quote #13: | "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." |
| Quote #14: | "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen." |
| Quote #15: | "Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." |
| Quote #16: | "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." |
| Quote #17: | "If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living." |
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