Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.


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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capa...
LEO ROSTEN
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all ...
LEO TOLSTOY
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as sayin...
LEO TOLSTOY
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ...
LEO TOLSTOY
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, ...
LEO ROSTEN
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
LEO MCKERN
Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!
LEO TOLSTOY
Don't lie if you don't have to.
LEO SZILARD
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...
LEO TOLSTOY
Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
LEO ROSTEN
But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.
LEO TOLSTOY
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...
LEO TOLSTOY
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
LEO TOLSTOY
I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOY
It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
LEO TOLSTOY
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOY
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY
Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what y...
LEO BABAUTA
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
LEO BURNETT