Quote by Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and t

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to ones reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy

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Men
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. – Bette Davis

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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. – Peter Ustinov

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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop

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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. – Robert Motherwell

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