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

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

Leo Tolstoy
Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth
Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1071, Vintage

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Lying, Giving

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Lying, Science
"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Honesty, People
Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Lying, Discovery
"Anna Karenina".

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Greatness, Simplicity
Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel”

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